undertaking

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
  2. A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
    — Nobody troubles to keep his word, to carry out literally his undertakings. In my small way I try to set that right by showing them the logical development of their ways.
  3. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
    — He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.
  4. The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of undertake form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

undertakings plural

词源

词源 1
By surface analysis, undertake + -ing.
词源 2
By surface analysis, undertake + -ing.
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