Beethoven's father was an unhappy man who took to drink.

贝多芬的父亲是个不快乐的人，总是喝酒。

I got up and took more drink to my mother.

我站起来去给妈妈再拿些酒。

The lady refuses to speak, sulks, takes to drink.

这位女士拒绝说话， 生闷气，喝了酒。

He's taken to drink; we're as sober as we are solvent.

他被带去喝酒； 我们既清醒又清醒。

Some of them took to drink, or got into trouble with the police, and went off—disappeared into the woods.

他们中的一些人开始喝酒， 或者惹上警察的麻烦，然后离开了——消失在树林里。

All day he would wander about as black as thunder, and he took to drinking a deal more than was good for him.

以致搞得他整天愁眉苦脸，借酒浇愁。

His routine was unchanged: cereal and a read of the paper before taking the drink upstairs to his wife in bed.

他的日常生活没有改变：麦片和阅读报纸，然后把饮料带到楼上给躺在床上的妻子。

He had made a moderate fortune, but had taken to drink towards the end of his life and had left nothing after his death.

他发了一笔不小的财富，但在生命的最后阶段开始酗酒，死后一无所有。

" If you beat me, Frank, " he said, " I shall take to drink. What will you do, if it goes the other way" ?

“如果你打败了我， 弗兰克，” 他说，“我就会喝酒。如果情况相反， 你会怎么做” ？

There is evidence, however, that he took to drink, and that both he and his show were on the down grade at the time of the great tragedy.

有然而，有证据表明他开始喝酒， 而且在这场大悲剧发生时， 他和他的演出都在下坡路。

That is why , when error is committed in the name of science , I feel the way a man would if his favorite uncle had taken to drink .

因此在以科学的名义做错事时，我的感觉就像一个人最喜欢的叔叔染上酒瘾后的心情一样。

The lady keeps her room, alters her habits, is not seen save when she drives out with her maid, refuses to stop at the stables to greet her favourite horse and apparently takes to drink.

这位女士保留了她的房间， 改变了她的习惯， 除了当她和她的女仆开车出去， 拒绝在马厩停下来迎接她最喜欢的马并且显然去喝酒时， 没有人看到她。