Word · CEFR A2 · Frequency #779
task
指派任务；布置任务
To assign a task to someone; to impose a task on someone.
- 1.
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
分配给任务,或施加任务于。
- 2.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
以沉重或过度的负担压迫；使负重担。
- 3.
To charge, as with a fault.
指控,如指责过错。
- 4.
assign a task to
分配任务
使负重担；压迫；指责；归咎；分配给任务,或施加任务于。；以沉重或过度的负担压迫；使负重担。；指控,如指责过错。
In use
The manager tasked our team with organizing the annual conference.
My supervisor tasks me with checking all the reports before they are sent.
She was tasked with designing the new website for the company.
I tasked him with looking after the children
task sb with sth
task 作及物动词，表示把任务交给某人。
The teacher tasked the students with a research project.
老师给学生们布置了一个研究项目。
task sb to do sth
task 后可接带 to 的不定式作宾语补足语。
We tasked a small team to review the proposal.
我们指派了一个小组去审查这份提案。
Connections
Collocations
- task someone with something
- 把某事交给某人做；让某人负责某事
- The manager tasked her with the new project.经理把新项目交给了她。
- be tasked with doing something
- 被指派负责做某事
- I was tasked with updating the schedule.我被指派负责更新日程。
- task someone to do something
- 派某人去做某事
- They tasked us to clean the lab after the experiment.他们派我们在实验后打扫实验室。
- heavily tasked
- 任务繁重的；负担沉重的
- The rescue team was heavily tasked during the flood.洪水期间救援队的任务十分繁重。
Idioms & figurative uses
- take someone to task
- 斥责某人，训斥某人The manager took him to task for the mistake.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 task 当动词：名词“任务”变成动作，就是“把任务派给你”——老板丢来一个 task，就是在 task 你。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：official documents、project management、workplace briefings 作动词表示“分配任务”时，通常用于较正式的书面或职场语境，如工作分配、项目安排或官方指令；常见搭配为 be tasked with。日常口语中较少直接用作动词，多用 give someone a task。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 task（美国音 /tæsk/）押韵的词有 ask /æsk/、bask /bæsk/、cask /kæsk/、flask /flæsk/、mask /mæsk/。注意拼写相似的 tusk /tʌsk/、risk /rɪsk/、desk /dɛsk/、dusk /dʌsk/ 并不同韵，元音不同。另注意 task 在英国英语中常读作 /tɑːsk/，上述押韵关系仅适用于 /tæsk/。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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