undertaking是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 任务， 事业； 许诺，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：
-- It was a serious undertaking to which John Mangles bound himself; Mary accepted, and gave her hand to the young captain, as if to ratify the treaty.
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：
-- His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tu-tor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man's ability to make the undertaking a success.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No one, at present; but I hope to make friends; and then I have a letter from ' 'At all events,' put in the general, not listening to the news about the letter, 'at all events, you must have learned SOMETHING, and your malady would not prevent your undertaking some easy work, in one of the departments, for instance?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that he ought to awaken her spirit; that it was extremely diffic ult to do so; but the very difficulty of the undertaking attracted him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The explorers, before undertaking new fatigues, must first of all recruit their strength.
-- You understand, my friends, that before undertaking the work of installation in earnest it is not enough to have found out that this land is an island; we must, as nearly as possible, know at what distance it is situated, either from the American continent or Australia, or from the principal archipelagoes of the Pacific."
-- But, captain, will it not be best to explore every part of the island before undertaking anything else?"
-- He believed him capable of undertaking anything and succeeding in everything.
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