carry

1.carry和take往往可以通用，如He carried the box to her 和He took the box to her意思相同。但He carried the boy to her是“他抱着、扛着或背着这男孩到她那里”，那男孩并不跟他一同走。He took the boy to her是“他带着这男孩到她那里”，那男孩也许跟他同走，也许不跟他同走。说跟某人一同到那里，假使不是抱着、背着或扛着，不可用carry。美国南方有把carry用作take解的。例如：He will carry his friend to the party this evening.但这决不是正常的英语。

2.carry on和carry out意思不同。carry on是“进行”或“经营”，carry out是“实行”或“完成”，如carry on a business（进行或经营一个事业）和carry out a business plan（实行一个事业上的计划）。

比较下面每组里的两句：

• We are carrying on the experiment.(我们正在进行这实验。)
  We are carrying out the experiment.(我们正在实行这实验。)
• Investigations have been carried on for a long time.(考察已经被进行好久了。)
  Investigations have already beencarried out.(考察已经被完成了。)