verb
to fill the post of; to hold the position of (syn.) 担任, 擔領, 承當, 肩, 担当, 负担, 承担, 食坐, 接载, 担领, 擔當, 負擔, 坐投, 承擔, 担负, 擔責承, 承受, 担承, 承当, 肩负, 接載, 充作, 擔任, 充當, 坐担, 稟受, 食擔, 擔負, 擔承, 肩負, 禀受, 担责承, 食担, 坐擔, 坐斗, 充当
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
他们的思想离开了社会的实践，他们不能站在社会车轮的前头充任向导的工作，他们只知跟在车子后面怨恨车子走得太快了，企图把它向后拉，开倒车。
他們的思想離開了社會的實踐，他們不能站在社會車輪的前頭充任嚮導的工作，他們只知跟在車子後面怨恨車子走得太快了，企圖把它向後拉，開倒車。
tā men de sī xiǎng lí kāi le shè huì de shí jiàn ， tā men bù néng zhàn zài shè huì chē lún de qián tou chōng rèn xiàng dǎo de gōng zuò ， tā men zhǐ zhī gēn zài chē zi hòu miàn yuàn hèn chē zi zǒu de tài kuài le ， qǐ tú bǎ tā xiàng hòu lā ， kāi dào chē ．
Their thinking is divorced from social practice, and they cannot march ahead to guide the chariot of society; they simply trail behind, grumbling that it goes too fast and trying to drag it back or turn it in the opposite direction.