一件要做的工作（名詞）
名詞的核心：一件指定要做的差事，常常是有點難、有點煩、或一再重複的。
job to do · noun · B2
A piece of work you have to do, often something difficult, boring, or that you do again and again.
任務 / 工作
核心畫面
Picture a single job handed to you that you now have to carry out — one defined piece of work with your name on it. Everything else (giving someone a task, taking someone to task) starts from this picture of an assigned job.
可以想成有一件被交到你手上、現在得去完成的工作——一塊範圍清楚、寫著你名字的差事。其他用法（交派任務、責備某人）都是…更多收起
可以想成有一件被交到你手上、現在得去完成的工作——一塊範圍清楚、寫著你名字的差事。其他用法（交派任務、責備某人）都是從「一件被指派的工作」這個畫面長出來的。Three branches
交派任務（動詞）
把名詞「一件差事」變成動作：把這件差事交到某人手上。同一個畫面，只是現在是「給出」任務的那一刻。
assign a task · verb · B2
To give someone the job of doing something, usually something important.
交派任務
片語：責備某人
固定片語 take someone to task：把某人「拉到任務面前」對質——彷彿要他為沒做好的那件差事負責、當面說清楚他哪裡做錯了。
take someone to task · noun · B2
In the phrase 'take someone to task' — to tell someone clearly that you think they did something wrong.
責備（片語）
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tasknoun詞源 1/tɑːsk/
- 1
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- daily task
- monotonous task
- 2
Any piece of work done.
- carry out a task
- complete a task
- 3
A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- [T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time
- 4
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- 5
An objective.
- 6
computingengineeringmathematicsA process or execution of a program.
- The user killed the frozen task.
- 7
obsoleteA tax or charge.
- Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]
taskverb詞源 1/tɑːsk/
- 1
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
- On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
- All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
- 2
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
- He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
- 3
To charge, as with a fault.
- Too impudent to task me with those errors.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。