0 a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or with difficulty -- 任务；（尤指经常、不情愿或很难做的）工作；（苦）差事
The government now faces the daunting task of restructuring the entire health service. 政府现在面临着重新改组整个医疗卫生体系的艰巨任务。
We usually ask interviewees to perform a few simple tasks on the computer just to test their aptitude. 我们通常让接受面试者在电脑上进行一些简单操作，只想测测他们的能力。
1 to criticize or speak angrily to someone for something that they have done wrong -- 责备（某人）
She took her assistant to task for/over her carelessness. 她责备助手太粗心大意。
2 to give someone a task -- 派给…任务
To introduce the tasks, the following information was provided on the cover page of the booklets.
The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection.
While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks, they will do so in an increasing variety of ways.
They were seen as mindless individuals who could take on repetitive tasks.
Fragmentation- the experience of work subdivided into a series of unconnected tasks not requiring the worker's full attention- is also a common experience.
Officials are given the power and authority to carry out tasks, but that power is limited by the rules which govern their office.
The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time, and are predictable only in overall terms.
Thus, while the medium in which the tasks are performed will be different, the actual tasks will, by and large, be the same.
