undertaking：事业；企业；保证；殡仪业 v. 同意；担任；许诺（ undertake 的 ing 形式） 语料库共检中 1,282 条：美剧 6 · 电影 4 · 原著 1233 · 演讲 39
真实语境例句（按库分组，共 17 条展示）
The following Proposals, which I will suppose to be made by some person of known and respectable character, who has courage enough to engage in so arduous an undertaking, will show my ideas upon this subject in the clearest manner.--Whether they are well founded, must be left to the reader to determine.--As to myself, I am so much persuaded that the scheme here proposed, by way of example, and merely for illustration, might be executed, that, had I time for the undertaking, (which I have not,) I should not hesitate to engage in it.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
That night, as Doctor Trevor sat in his study, after his wife had gone to bed, Miss Galindo knocked at his door. She and he had a long conversation. The result was that he accompanied Miss Galindo up to town the next day; that they took possession of the little Bessy, and she was brought down, and placed at nurse at a farm in the country near Warwick, Miss Galindo undertaking to pay one-half of the expense, and to furnish her with clothes, and Dr. Trevor undertaking that the remaining half should be furnished by the Gibson family, or by himself in their default.英文原著 · 《My Lady Ludlow》
"And so you think, Louis, that our perilous undertaking has really ended well by this tim e?" said Rose, anxiously, as she lighted the lamp and placed the glass shade over it. "What a relief it is only to hear you say you think we have succeeded at last!"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Among the people who watched his perseverance, a belief began to gain ground that his life would be miraculously prolonged until he had completed his undertaking from one end of Brittany to the other. But this was not to be.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
She was the daughter of M. Mevel, a former Icelander, a bit of a freebooter, who had made a fortune by bold undertakings out at sea.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
From what I gather, this takeover is a massive undertaking, right?美剧 · 《Suits》
Penny, This would be a massive undertaking, And my time is both limited and valuable.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
I suppose, a mythic undertaking: to build a 10,000-year clock I suppose, a mythic undertaking: to build a 10,000-year clock演讲 · 《The Long Now ~ Stewart Brand》