Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Take
- Take On
- Allow passengers on a ship or plane (entrar)
- Ex: The plane stopped at Zurich to TAKE ON some passengers.
- Assume a responsibility
- Example: She TOOK ON the task of indexing the book.
- Employ (Empregar)
- Example: The council has had to TAKE ON twenty extra employees to handle their increased workload.
- Take Up
- Fill or occupy time or space
(Tomar)
- EX: An awful lot of my time at work is TAKEN UP with pointless bureaucracy nowadays
- Make clothes shorter
- EX: The trousers were too long so I TOOK them UP to make them fit.
- Start a new hobby, pastime, etc.
- EX: He TOOK UP squash as he felt he had to lose some weight.
- Take Over
- Assume control of a company or organization
(Assumir controle)
- EX: The bank was TAKEN OVER a hong bank that needed to buy a bank to get into the British market
- Start a job or position that someone had occupied before you
(Assumir)
- EX: She TOOK OVER responsibility for the project last month.
- Take In
- Absorb information (Assimilar)
- EX: The lecture was rather boring and I didn't TAKE IN much of what the lecturer said.
- Deceive (Enganar)
- EX: She TOOK me IN with her story until someone told me the truth.
- Make clothes smaller
- EX: The jacket was far too big around the shoulders, so I had it TAKEN IN so that I could wear it.
- Assume care or support (Acolheu)
- EX: The family TOOK IN the three homeless kittens.
- Take Off
- Make great progress
(Decolar)
- EX: The software house really TOOK OFF when they produced the lastest version of their DTP package.
- Reduce the price of an item
(Reduzir)
- EX: They've TAKEN ten percent OFF designer frames for glasses.
- When a plane departs or leaves the ground
(Decolar)
- EX: The flight for Dublin TOOK OFF on time
- Remove
- EX: It was hot, so I TOOK my jacket OFF
- Take Down
- Make notes or write down in full
- EX: The police TOOK DOWN his answers to their questions.
- Remove
- EX: People TAKE DOWN their Christmas decorations twelve days after Christmas.
- Derrubar
- Take Out
- Borrow a library book
(Tirar)
- EX: I TOOK OUT all the books I needed for my essay from the library
- Borrow money from a bank or other official lender
(Extrair)
- EX: Jackie and Anil TOOK OUT a mortagage to buy a bigger flat
- Extract or remove
- EX: The dentist TOOK OUT all of my wisdom teeth before they started causing any problems.
- Go out socially with someone, especially a date.
(Levar pra Sair)
- EX: He TOOK her OUT to a restaurant last Friday night.
- Obtain insurance
- EX: I TOOK OUT some health insurance before I went backpaking around Latin America.
- Kill, Murder
- EX: The gang TOOK him OUT after he spoke to the police
- Take Away
- Remove
- Example: The police TOOK the protestors AWAY.
- Take Back
- Make someone nostalgic
(Levar de volta/Lembrar)
- Ex: That song always TAKES me BACK to when I was at university.
- Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong
- EX: I had to TAKE BACK everything bad I'd said about them when I learned how they'd helped out.
- Take It
- Accept criticism
- Example: He's good at criticising others, but can't TAKE IT himself.
- Take Aback
- Surprise or shock
- Example: The news of her death TOOK me ABACK.
- Take After
- Look like, resemble (Comparar/assemelhar)
- Example: He TAKES AFTER his mother.
- Take Aside
- Get someone alone to talk to them (chamar de canto)
- Example: The teacher TOOK her ASIDE and said that she'd failed the exam.
- Take Through
- Explain something to someone
- Example: He TOOK me THROUGH the procedures before we started.
- Take it out on
- Abuse someone because you're angry
(Descontar nos outros)
- Example: Whenever things go wrong, he always shouts and TAKES IT OUT ON me, even if I
had nothing to do with the problem.
- Take it upon Yourself
- Take responsibility, often without consulting other people
(Assumir por si mesmo)
- Example: I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF to make sure he got up on time.