works
People who have work or who are in work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
Fewer and fewer people are in work.
有工作的人越来越少。
I was out of work at the time.
那时我失业了。
Your work consists of the things you are paid or required to do in your job.
We're supposed to be running a business here. I've got work to do.
我们本应该在这做生意。我有工作要做。
I used to take work home, but I don't do it any more.
我过去常把工作带回家,但现在再也不那样做了。
Work is tasks that need to be done or things that need to be achieved.
There was a lot of work to do on their house.
他们的房子还有许多地方需要收拾。
Work is the place where you do your job.
Many people travel to work by car.
许多人乘车去工作单位。
Work is something that you produce as a result of an activity or as a result of doing your job.
It can help to have an impartial third party look over your work.
让中立的第3方来检查你的工作会有所帮助。
A work is something such as a painting, book, or piece of music produced by an artist, writer, or composer.
In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work.
在我看来,这是伦勃朗最伟大的作品。
the complete works of Shakespeare.
莎士比亚的全部作品。
The church has several valuable works of art.
此教堂有几部贵重的艺术作品。
Someone's work is the study or research that they have done on a particular subject or question.
Their work shows that one-year-olds are much more likely to have allergies if either parent smokes.
他们的研究显示,如果父母任何一方吸烟,1岁的婴儿更有可能有过敏反应。
Work with a particular person or a group of people is time and effort spent trying to help them in some way.
She became involved in social and relief work among the refugees.
她参加了针对难民的社会救济工作。
A works is a place where something is manufactured or where an industrial process is carried out. Works is used to refer to one or to more than one of these places.
the steelworks in Gary, Indiana.
在印第安纳州盖瑞市的那家钢厂。
Works are activities such as digging the ground or building on a large scale.
six years of disruptive building works, road construction and urban development.
6年混乱的建筑施工、路政和城市开发。
work off
If you work off energy, stress, or anger, you get rid of it by doing something that requires a lot of physical effort.
Cleaning my kitchen really works off frustration if I've had a fight with someone.
假如我与他人发生了争执,打扫厨房的确会排解沮丧的心情。
work out
If you work out a solution to a problem or mystery, you manage to find the solution by thinking or talking about it.
figure out
Negotiators are due to meet later today to work out a compromise.
谈判者们预定在今天晚些时候会面以商定一个折中的办法。
It took me some time to work out what was causing this.
我花了一些时间才弄清导致这种状况的原因。
If you work out the answer to a mathematical problem, you calculate it.
It is proving hard to work out the value of bankrupt companies' assets.
清算破产公司的资产值其实很困难。
If something works out at a particular amount, it is calculated to be that amount after all the facts and figures have been considered.
The price per pound works out at $3.20.
每磅的价格总计为3.20美元。
If a situation works out well or works out, it happens or progresses in a satisfactory way.
Things just didn't work out as planned.
事情没有像计划的那样进展顺利。
The deal just isn't working out the way we were promised.
这项交易进展得并不如之前向我们承诺的那样顺利。
If a process works itself out, it reaches a conclusion or satisfactory end.
People involved in it think it's a nightmare, but I'm sure it will work itself out.
参与者都认为它是一场噩梦,但我确信它会有满意的结果。
If you work out, you do physical exercises in order to make your body fit and strong.
Work out at a gym or swim twice a week.
每周两次在健身房锻炼或游泳。
work up
If you work yourself up, you make yourself feel very upset or angry about something.
She worked herself up into a bit of a state.
她把自己搞得有点动肝火。
If you work up the enthusiasm or courage to do something, you succeed in making yourself feel it.
Your creative talents can also be put to good use, if you can work up the energy.
如果你能做到精力充沛,你的创新才能也能很好地发挥出来。
If you work up a sweat or an appetite, you make yourself sweaty or hungry by doing exercise or hard work.
Even if you are not prepared to work up a sweat three times a week, any activity is better than none.
即使你不准备每周进行三次大汗淋漓的运动,随便做些运动就比什么都不做强。
work your way somewhere
If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
Rescuers were still working their way towards the trapped men.
救援人员仍在慢慢地挪近那些被困人员。
at work
If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.
The salvage teams are already hard at work trying to deal with the spilled oil.
那些救援队已在拼命工作,设法处理泄漏的石油。
If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect.
It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.
重要的是要理解在我们自己的行动背后起作用的那些强大的经济和社会力量。
put someone to work , set someone to work
If you put someone to work or set them to work, you give them a job or task to do.
By stimulating the economy, we're going to put people to work.
我们将通过刺激经济让人们就业。
get to work , go to work , set to work
If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit.
他承诺着手处理该国严重的赤字问题。
works , working , worked
People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
I started working in a recording studio.
我开始在一个录音棚里工作。
He worked as a teacher for 50 years.
他从事教师工作50年了。
I want to work, I don't want to be on the dole.
我想工作,不想依靠救济。
When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job.
I can't talk to you right now – I'm working.
我这会儿不能和你说话–我正在工作。
He was working at his desk.
他正在伏案工作。
They work forty hours a week.
他们一周工作40个小时。
When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something.
Linda spends all her time working on the garden.
琳达把所有的时间都花在打理花园上。
The government expressed hope that all the sides will work towards a political solution.
政府希望各方共同努力,制订出一个政治解决方案。
If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it.
Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type.
博内特教授多年来一直在研究这类分子。
If you work with a person or a group of people, you spend time and effort trying to help them in some way.
She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.
她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。
If a machine or piece of equipment works, it operates and performs a particular function.
The pump doesn't work and we have no running water.
这个水泵坏了,我们没有自来水了。
If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory.
95 per cent of these diets do not work.
这些节食方法中的95都不奏效。
If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect.
I wake up at 6 a.m. as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours.
我早上6点醒来,因为这种安眠药作用不会超过9个小时。
If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem.
My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening.
我的脑子疯狂地运转着, 将那天晚上发生的事情飞快地过了一遍。
If you work on an assumption or idea, you act as if it were true or base other ideas on it, until you have more information.
We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion.
我们假设这是一场燃气爆炸事故。
If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job.
They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this.
他们把我用得太狠了,我年纪太大了,干不了这种活儿了。
When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops.
Farmers worked the fertile valleys.
农民开垦了这个肥沃的山谷。
If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it.
Many adults still depend on their children to work the video.
许多成年人仍依靠他们的孩子来操作录像机。
If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition.
It's important to put a lock washer on that last nut, or it can work loose.
重要的是要在最后一个螺母上安装一个防松垫圈,否则它会逐渐变松。