- 开始从事(某种职业、业务等)：
Our factory has taken to making children's boots.
我们厂开始生产童靴。
He left the medical profession and took to journalism.
他离开了医学界，开始从事新闻工作。
- 养成(某种习惯)；嗜好…；耽于…，沉湎于…，沉迷于…：
His sister took to knitting in her spare time.
他妹妹在空闲时打毛线。
to take to bad habits
染上恶习
- 喜欢上…，对…产生好感：
They took to each other at once.
他们彼此马上产生了好感；他们一见钟情。
He took to photography.
他开始喜欢上摄影。
- 轻易学会；适应：
She took to German as though it had been her native language.
她很容易地学会了德语，就好像德语是她的母语。
- 照管，照料：
to take to one's master
伺候主人
- 走，去；向，赴；(为了休息、躲藏等)逃到…；借助…逃走；求援于：
to take to one's bed
生病卧床
Thousands of people took to the streets to welcome back their hero.
成千上万的人涌上街头欢迎他们的英雄归来。
The criminal took to the hills to escape from the police.
罪犯逃到山里躲避警方的追捕。
to take to the woods
躲进树林；躲藏起来
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