undertake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 承担; 同意, 答应，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot undertake to say that he was.'
-- 'Both were so wrapped up, and the night was so dark, and we were all so reserved, that I cannot undertake to say even that.'
-- 'I can't undertake to find third parties in common sense; I can only find it for myself.
-- If you please, committing you in no way, representing you in no way, I will undertake to correct my advice by the exercise of a little new observation and judgment expressly brought to bear upon it.
-- 'Will you undertake to explain, that we suppose it to have been addressed here, on the chance of our knowing where to forward it, and that it has been here some time?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your answer as to whether you will undertake to conduct the case, and on what terms, you will be so good as to communicate to me."
-- When Alexey Alexandrovitch with Lidia Ivanovna's help had been brought back anew to life and activity, he felt it his duty to undertake the education of the son left on his hands.
-- Levin had offered to take her place, but the mother, having once overheard Levin's lesson, and noticing that it was not given exactly as the teacher in Moscow had given it, said resolutely, though with much embarrassment and anxiety not to mortify Levin, that they must keep strictly to the book as the teacher had done, and that she had better undertake it again herself.
-- Hiring horses in the village is disagreeable to me, and, what's of more importance, they'll undertake the job and never get you there.
-- Have pity on her, and I will undertake to arrange everything.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency!I undertake to!Will you bet on it?'
-- 'In the first place, because I can reason that I am one, and secondly, because for a month past I have been troubling benevolent Providence, calling it to witness that not for my own fleshly lusts did I undertake it, but with a grand and noble object ha-ha!Thirdly, because I aimed at carrying it out as justly as possible, weighing, measuring and calculating.
-- 'I perceive, Avdotya Romanovna, that you seem disposed to undertake his defence all of a sudden,' Luzhin observed, twisting his lips into an ambiguous smile, 'there's no doubt that he is an astute man, and insinuating where ladies are concerned, of which Marfa Petrovna, who has died so strangely, is a terrible instance.
-- 'I will undertake all the arrangements, the funeral and that.
-- And imagine what I did then!To what a pitch of stupidity a man can be brought by frenzy!Never undertake anything in a frenzy, Rodion Romanovitch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so young and childish, and so little qualified- how could I beotherwise?to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, thatoften, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I couldnot resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastry-cooks' doors, and spent in that, the money I should have kept formy dinner.
-- He names individuals among them(myself included), whom he could undertake to settle with onehand, and the other tied behind him.
-- Being very anxious to leave no stone unturned, I waited until Mr.Spenlow came in, and then described what had passed; giving himto understand that I was not hopeless of his being able to soften theadamantine Jorkins, if he would undertake the task.
-- Miss Mills replied in theaffirmative so readily, that I further asked her if she would takecharge of the Cookery Book; and, if she ever could insinuate itupon Dora's acceptance, without frightening her, undertake to dome that crowning service.
-- 'I cannot, therefore, allow of the departure from this place of anindividual whom we mutually respect and esteem, without, mydear sir, taking this public opportunity of thanking you, on myown behalf, and I may undertake to add, on that of the whole ofthe inhabitants of Port Middlebay, for the gratification of whichyou are the ministering agent.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I undertake the commission.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was suggested by Bathsheba's recent act of promotion or not, the farmer proposed at the interview that Gabriel should undertake the superintendence of the Lower Farm as well as of Bathsheba's, because of the necessity Boldwood felt for such aid, and the impossibility of discovering a more trustworthy man.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge.'
-- 159 ''I am about to undertake that task; and it is on that ac-count that I feel so many overwhelming terrors.
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