任
Meanings
- to assign
- to appoint
- to take up a post
- office
- responsibility
- to let
- to allow
- to give free rein to
- no matter (how, what etc)
- classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
- surname Ren
In sentences
他要负责任,但这责任他可担当不了。He had to be responsible, but this was a responsibility that he couldn’t bear. #2367601
我第一任妻子去世了。My first wife is dead. #12615470
查尔斯王子将会是下一任英国国王。Prince Charles will be the next British king. #799206
汤姆有三任妻子。她们全是加拿大人。Tom has had three wives. They were all Canadians. #13893634
马来西亚第六任首相是拿督斯利纳吉·阿都拉萨。The sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia is Dato' Seri Najib Abdul Razak. #924598
伯拉罕·林肯,美国第16任总统,生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. #791342
Words with 任
- 任务 mission; assignment; task; duty; role
- 任何 any; whatever; whichever
- 主任 director
- 担任 to hold a governmental office or post
- 责任 responsibility; duty; liability
- 任期 term of office
- 任免 to appoint and dismiss
- 任职 to hold a post; to take office
- 信任 to trust
- 任命 to appoint
- 历任 to hold the successive posts of
- 出任 to take up a post; to start in a new job