Other writers, and filmmakers too, have been taken to task when attempting such feats.

其他作家和电影制作人在尝试这样的壮举时也受到过责难。

He was taken to task for not reporting the problem earlier.

【task】他因为没有早受到了严厉批评。

He who had soared amid the remotest grandeurs of nature had been taken to task on a rudimentary question of morals, which had never been a question with him at all.

他曾经翱翔在最遥远的宏伟大自然中，却被派去解决一个基本的道德，而这对他来说根本就不是。