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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His father took him out of school and made him take a job in a large company.

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If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.

如果你有1个15英寸的炮弹,按照经典的速度移动，会消耗大量的动能,抵抗来自于一张薄纸的阻力，这就是我们在这儿看到的尺度。

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It took me seven comparisons, because I can take advantage of the fact I know I only ever have to look at the first element of each sub-list. Those are the only things I need to compare, and when I run out of one list, I just add the rest of the list in.

进行了7次对比，因为我可以利用我知道的优势：,每次只需要比较每个子列表的第一个元素,那才是我需要进行对比的内容,当一个列表的元素处理完了,只需要将另一个列表剩下的元素直接添加进去。

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Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.

ECONOMIST: European family firms in the recession

We invite you to take the same survey that the candidates took (or refused to take) and see which candidates came out on top and which ones came out on bottom.

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Praveen Halappanavar's legal team will question them about the actions they took and did not take.

BBC: Savita Halappanavar death: Inquest set to resume on Monday