take place

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To happen or to occur. intransitive
    — Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.
  2. To take precedence or priority. obsolete
    — I know him a notorious liar, / Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; / Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, / That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones / Look bleak i’ the cold wind […]
  3. To take effect; to prevail. obsolete
    — But he to shifte their curious request, / Gan causen, why she could not come in place; / Her crased helth, her late recourse to rest, / And humid euening ill for sicke folkes cace, / But none of those excuses could take place; / Ne would they eate, till she in presence came.
  4. To sit in a particular location, take one's place. obsolete
    — King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII.

词形变化

takes place present,singular,third-person taking place participle,present took place past taken place participle,past

词源

A verb phrase, with place functioning as the direct object of the transitive verb take.
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