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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- God has sent it to us—to us!Undoubtedly God intends us to undertake the rescue of these poor men."
-- "Well, I'll undertake to cook it," said Paganel.
-- "My Lord," said John Mangles, "before we throw away our chance, before venturing to this bridge, we ought to reconnoiter, and I will undertake it."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place.
-- 'No, Watson; I fear that I could not undertake to recog-nize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or perhaps you may be intending to undertake some sort of employ-ment?
-- Don't you think you could undertake to give it to her at once, but only to her, mind, and so that no one else should see you give it?
-- 'That is a thing I cannot undertake to explain,' replied the prince.
-- He is now prepar-ing to undertake another case.
-- I cannot undertake to say precisely what it is, but you have certainly omitted something, and you cannot be quite just while there is something lacking.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will take no counsel with him, and will undertake nothing in common with him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We will, therefore, go back, and light our fire to-night in the ru-ins of the old fort, and in the morning we shall be fresh, and ready to undertake our work like men, and not like bab-bling women or eager boys.'
-- Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the military attire of a strange nation; and without it was his warhorse, in the center of a collection of mounted do-mestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some distant journey.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The MacAndrews, who were childless and in easy circumstances, arranged to undertake the care of the children, and Mrs. Strickland had only herself to provide for.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have taken for his motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: "I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people at the inn will undertake to do this: and I can trust to you to see it done, I know.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, I told them I would go with all my heart, if they would undertake to look after my plantation in my ab-sence, and would dispose of it to such as I should direct, if I miscarried.
-- I pleased myself with the design, without determining whether I was ever able to undertake it; not but that the difficulty of launching my boat came often into my head; but I put a stop to my inquiries into it by this foolish answer which I gave myself - 'Let me first make it; I warrant I will find some way or other to get it along when it is done.'
-- But still I found a strong inclination to attempting my escape, founded on the supposition gathered from the discourse, that there were seventeen bearded men there; and therefore, without any more delay, I went to work with Friday to find out a great tree proper to fell, and make a large periagua, or canoe, to undertake the voyage.
-- He told me they were all of them very civil, honest men, and they were under the great-est distress imaginable, having neither weapons nor clothes, nor any food, but at the mercy and discretion of the savag-es; out of all hopes of ever returning to their own country; and that he was sure, if I would undertake their relief, they would live and die by me.
-- Upon this, I told him that, if he desired it, I would undertake to bring the two men he spoke of to make it their own request that he should leave them upon the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thanked him for it with all her heart, spoke of Edward's principles and disposition with that praise which she knew them to deserve; and promised to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.
-- She could undertake therefore to inform him of it, in the course of the day.
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