To undertake or begin to handle:从事，开始对付：took on extra responsibilities.担负了额外的责任
To hire; engage:雇；雇佣：took on more workers during the harvest.在收获期间雇了更多的工人
To oppose in competition:对抗：在竞争中迎击：a wrestler who took on all comers.一个接受所有新手挑战的摔跤运动员
Informal To display violent or passionate emotion:【非正式用语】 激动，大惊小怪：表现出猛烈的或激动的情感：Don't take on so!别这样大吵大闹！
To acquire (an appearance, for example) as or as if one's own:摆架子，假装：获得（比如，相貌）作为自己的或使它象是自己的：Over the years he has taken on the look of a banker.这些年来他摆出了一副银行家的派头