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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone?
-- When actuated by selfish and vicious mo-tives, I asked you to undertake my unfinished work, and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by reason and virtue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did not undertake to say when it had left the prison-ships to which it undoubtedly had once belonged; but they claimed to know for certain that that particular manacle had not been worn by either of the two convicts who had escaped last night.
-- If we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
-- "I couldn't undertake to say that, of my own knowledge.
-- I mean, I couldn't undertake to say it was at first.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.
-- said the lion, 'nothing, unless you undertake to give me whatever meets you on your return home; if you agree to this, I will give you your life, and the rose too for your daughter.'
-- 'Oh, trouble not yourself about that,' said the dwarf; 'only undertake to bring me here, twelve years hence, 302 Grimms' Fairy Taleswhatever meets you first on your going home, and I will give you as much as you please.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable sup-ply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lines shown here are an exact facsimile of what was written on the venerable piece of parchment--and have wonderful importance, as they induced my uncle to undertake the most wonderful series of adventures which ever fell to the lot of human beings.
-- We must not, however, attempt to hurry him; we must allow him to have his own way, and I will undertake to say that between us we shall do our ten leagues a day."
-- A man who had made up his mind to undertake a voyage into the Interior of the Earth, is not the man to haggle over a few miserable rix-dollars.
-- "But," I exclaimed, "our clothes, this mass of cord and ladders--who will undertake to carry them down?"
-- After all, I did not come from home to undertake a party of pleasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you will undertake to let the young man know that he is free, and to tell him that you were employed to compound for the debt by some one whom you are not at liberty to name, you will not only do me a service, but may do him one, and his sister also.'
-- 'Well really my dear,' said Flora, who had a decided tendency to be always honest when she gave herself time to think about it, 'it's as well to leave that alone now, for I couldn't undertake to say after all, but it doesn't signify lie down a little!'
-- In this endeavour he so prospered as to lure that pining shepherd forth from the groves, and tempt him to undertake mysterious missions; on which he began to disappear at uncertain intervals for as long a space as two or three days together.
-- 'I couldn't,' said Mr Sparkler, after feeling his pulse as before, 'couldn't undertake to say what led to it 'cause memory desperate loose.
-- Mr Chivery spoke to the toast, saying, What you undertake to lock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fettered African, a man and a brother ever.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, a short, little old body like me, should never undertake to wade out into deep waters with tall, heron-built captains; the water chucks you under the chin pretty quick, and there's a great cry for life-boats.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That Oliver Twist was moved to resignation by the example of these good people, I cannot, although I am his biographer, undertake to affirm with any degree of confidence; but I can most distinctly say, that for many months he continued meekly to submit to the domination and ill-treatment of Noah Claypole: who used him far worse than before, now that his jealousy was roused by seeing the new boy promoted to the black stick and hatband, while he, the old one, remained stationary in the muffin-cap and leathers.
-- By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
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