The past tense of 'take' is 'took'.

take的过去式是took。

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It took a lot of nerve to take the company to court.

将这个公司告上法庭需要极大的勇气。

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It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted.

人类花了1万年的时间，才学会种植我们现在习以为常的大部分农作物。

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"As I've said from the day I took office, it's going to take months, even years, to dig our way out - and it's going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort."

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"I was a typical American consumer - I shopped a lot, I ate most of my meals in take-out containers, I took cabs everywhere, " said Michelle, a journalist with a weekly business magazine.

BBC: US family tries life without toilet paper

To see many of the best people from that reservoir -- the ones who stopped dreaming of their potential to serve and took real action -- take a look at those volunteers in the Marines and the Peace Corps.

CNN: From Marine Corps to Peace Corps

"It's not as hard to take as the one before, which was right at the end but we had chances and didn't take them - they had one and took it, " he said.

BBC: Scotland rue missed chances after loss to Italy