wěi tuō
commission
In Chinese, '委托' can be used in various settings. You can use it when you assign a task to a person or when you're describing a contractual agreement where one party agrees to perform a task for another. It is broadly used in business and legal scenarios.
wǒ wěi tuō tā chǔ lǐ zhè ge wèn tí.
I entrust him to handle this problem.
This sentence talks about a person trusting another to deal with a particular issue.
tā wěi tuō wǒ wèi tā ān pái xíng chéng.
She has entrusted me to arrange her itinerary.
The speaker is to be trusted by someone to arrange the schedule.
tā wěi tuō wǒ dài biǎo tā chū xí huì yì.
He entrusted me to represent him at the meeting.
The speaker here has been entrusted by someone else to represent them in a meeting.
tā wěi tuō tā de lǜ shī chǔ lǐ shì qíng.
She entrusted her lawyer to handle the matter.
In this case, someone is entrusting their lawyer to manage a particular issue.
wǒ jiāng gōng sī de guǎn lǐ gōng zuò wěi tuō gěi le tā.
I have entrusted the management of the company to him.
The speaker is assigning the task of managing a company to someone else.
wǒ jiāng zhè xiàng rèn wù wěi tuō gěi nǐ.
I entrust this task to you.
In this case, the speaker is formally transferring responsibility of a specific task to another person.
zhèng fǔ wěi tuō wǒ jìn xíng diào yán.
The government entrusted me to carry out research.
This sentence indicates that the speaker has been tasked by the government for a research assignment.
wǒ jiāng zhè ge rèn wù wěi tuō gěi tā.
I entrusted this task to him.
This is another example of a speaker assigning a person to take on a particular task.
tā wěi tuō wǒ mǎi zhè ge dōng xī.
He entrusted me to buy this thing.
In this sentence, someone has been tasked to purchase a specific item.
tā men jiāng huì yì jué dìng wěi tuō gěi wǒ zhí xíng.
They entrusted the meeting decision to me for implementation.
Here, the meeting decisions are being entrusted to the speaker to execute.