task

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɑːsk/    美 /tæsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
    — daily task
  2. Alternative form of taisch. alt-of,alternative
  3. Any piece of work done.
    — carry out a task
  4. A single action undertaken by a given agent.
    — [T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time
  5. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
    — As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
  6. An objective.
  7. A process or execution of a program.
    — The user killed the frozen task.
  8. A tax or charge. obsolete
    — Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]
动词 v.
  1. To assign a task to, or impose a task on. transitive
    — On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
  2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax transitive
    — He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
  3. To charge, as with a fault. transitive
    — Too impudent to task me with those errors.

词形变化

tasks plural tasks present,singular,third-person tasking participle,present tasked participle,past tasked past

词汇关系

近义词
chore job objective goal
衍生词
attask call to task eigentask hypertask intertask intratask metatask microtask monotask multitasking on task outtask overtask pretask retask Sally-Anne task Sternberg task subtask supertask take to task taskable taskbar taskboard task control tasker task failed successfully task force task-force task group taskless tasklet tasklike tasklist task manager taskmaster taskmistress task-negative task-oriented taskpad task-positive taskscape taskset tasksetter tasksetting tasksheet task-specific tasktray taskwork tasky utility task vehicle multitask multi-task

词源

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.
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