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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, though I promised you a walk in the forest, I did not undertake to find hotels there.
-- We dug the grave, and the polypi undertake to seal our dead for eternity."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied the sailor, "I am not quite conjuror enough for that; we must come down to eggs in the shell, my boy, and I will undertake to despatch the hardest!"
-- No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.
-- "Yes, a real boat," replied the sailor; "but we do not want one for a sea voyage, and in five days at the most, I will undertake to construct a canoe fit to navigate the Mercy."
-- Now should they undertake it immediately, and devote this day to it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That would be an excellent plan,' said Brass, 'if anybody would be ' and here he looked very hard at Mr Swiveller 'would be kind, and friendly, and generous enough, to undertake it.
-- He would often persuade her to undertake his share of writing in addition to her own; nay, he would sometimes reward her with a hearty slap on the back, and protest that she was a devilish good fellow, a jolly dog, and so forth; all of which compliments Miss Sally would receive in entire good part and with perfect satisfaction.
-- In a word, the single gentleman was bursting out of the office, bent upon laying violent hands on Kit's mother, forcing her into a post-chaise, and carrying her off, when this novel kind of abduction was with some difficulty prevented by the joint efforts of Mr Abel and the Notary, who restrained him by dint of their remonstrances, and persuaded him to sound Kit upon the probability of her being able and willing to undertake such a journey on so short a notice.
-- The upshot of the business was, that Kit, after weighing the matter in his mind and considering it carefully, promised, on behalf of his mother, that she should be ready within two hours from that time to undertake the expedition, and engaged to produce her in that place, in all respects equipped and prepared for the journey, before the specified period had expired.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot go now, and can undertake nothing until I have heard from her," thought Nekhludoff.
-- The lawyer listened to him attentively, and said that if the facts were really as told to Nekhludoff, he would undertake their defense without compensation.
-- "Don't leave them when you undertake to look after them."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof has been kept whole hitherto; but as the clergyman's stipend is only twenty pounds per annum, and a house with two rooms, threatening speedily to determine into one, no clergyman will undertake the duties of pastor: especially as it is currently reported that his flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets.
-- If I can make any sense of your nonsense, Miss,' I said, 'it only goes to convince me that you are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying; or else that you are a wicked, unprincipled girl.
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