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work

英  [wɜːk]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词

  • works

    1. [U 不可数名词] 工作

    People who have work or who are in work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.

    双语例句

    例：

    Fewer and fewer people are in work.

    有工作的人越来越少。

    例：

    I was out of work at the time.

    那时我失业了。

    2. [U 不可数名词] 工作

    Your work consists of the things you are paid or required to do in your job.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    例：

    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。

    3. [U 不可数名词] 活计

    Work is tasks that need to be done or things that need to be achieved.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    4. [U 不可数名词] 工作单位

    Work is the place where you do your job.

    双语例句

    例：

    Many people travel to work by car.

    许多人乘车去工作单位。

    5. [U 不可数名词] 工作成果

    Work is something that you produce as a result of an activity or as a result of doing your job.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    6. [C 可数名词] 作品 , 著作

    A work is something such as a painting, book, or piece of music produced by an artist, writer, or composer.

    近义词

    piece

    双语例句

    例：

    In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work.

    在我看来，这是伦勃朗最伟大的作品。

    例：

    the complete works of Shakespeare.

    莎士比亚的全部作品。

    例：

    The church has several valuable works of art.

    此教堂有几部贵重的艺术作品。

    7. [U 不可数名词] 研究

    Someone's work is the study or research that they have done on a particular subject or question.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    8. [U 不可数名词] （帮助他人的）工作

    Work with a particular person or a group of people is time and effort spent trying to help them in some way.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    9. [C 可数名词] 工厂

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    the steelworks in Gary, Indiana.

    在印第安纳州盖瑞市的那家钢厂。

    10. [PL 复数] 施工

    Works are activities such as digging the ground or building on a large scale.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

  • work off

    1. [PHRASAL 短语] 发泄

    If you work off energy, stress, or anger, you get rid of it by doing something that requires a lot of physical effort.

    双语例句

    例：

    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

    1. [PHRASAL 短语] 找到（解决办法等）

    If you work out a solution to a problem or mystery, you manage to find the solution by thinking or talking about it.

    近义词

    figure out

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    例：

    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。

    2. [PHRASAL 短语] 计算

    If you work out the answer to a mathematical problem, you calculate it.

    近义词

    calculate

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    3. [PHRASAL 短语] 总计为

    If something works out at a particular amount, it is calculated to be that amount after all the facts and figures have been considered.

    双语例句

    例：

    The price per pound works out at $3.20.

    每磅的价格总计为3.20美元。

    4. [PHRASAL 短语] 进展顺利

    If a situation works out well or works out, it happens or progresses in a satisfactory way.

    双语例句

    例：

    Things just didn't work out as planned.

    事情没有像计划的那样进展顺利。

    例：

    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。

    5. [PHRASAL 短语] 有满意的结果

    If a process works itself out, it reaches a conclusion or satisfactory end.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    6. [PHRASAL 短语] 锻炼

    If you work out, you do physical exercises in order to make your body fit and strong.

    近义词

    exercise

    双语例句

    例：

    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

    1. [PHRASAL 短语] 使烦恼 , 使发怒

    If you work yourself up, you make yourself feel very upset or angry about something.

    双语例句

    例：

    She worked herself up into a bit of a state.

    她把自己搞得有点动肝火。

    2. [PHRASAL 短语] 激发

    If you work up the enthusiasm or courage to do something, you succeed in making yourself feel it.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    3. [PHRASAL 短语] 通过锻炼或高强度工作而产生

    If you work up a sweat or an appetite, you make yourself sweaty or hungry by doing exercise or hard work.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    PHRASE. 习语

  • work your way somewhere

    1. 逐渐移动到某处

    If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.

    双语例句

    例：

    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

    1. 在工作 , 在从事某种活动

    If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    2. 正起作用

    If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect.

    双语例句

    例：

    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

    1. 给某人工作

    If you put someone to work or set them to work, you give them a job or task to do.

    双语例句

    例：

    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

    1. 开始工作 , 着手处理

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    VERB. 动词

  • works , working , worked

    1. [I 不及物动词] 工作

    People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.

    双语例句

    例：

    I started working in a recording studio.

    我开始在一个录音棚里工作。

    例：

    He worked as a teacher for 50 years.

    他从事教师工作50年了。

    例：

    I want to work, I don't want to be on the dole.

    我想工作，不想依靠救济。

    2. [I 不及物动词] 工作

    When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    例：

    He was working at his desk.

    他正在伏案工作。

    例：

    They work forty hours a week.

    他们一周工作40个小时。

    3. [I 不及物动词] 努力从事

    When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    例：

    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。

    4. [I 不及物动词] 研究

    If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    5. [I 不及物动词] 帮助

    If you work with a person or a group of people, you spend time and effort trying to help them in some way.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    6. [I 不及物动词] （机器或设备）运转

    If a machine or piece of equipment works, it operates and performs a particular function.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    7. [I 不及物动词] （想法、系统或方法）奏效

    If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory.

    双语例句

    例：

    95 per cent of these diets do not work.

    这些节食方法中的95都不奏效。

    8. [I 不及物动词] （药物）起作用

    If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    9. [I 不及物动词] （脑子或思想）运转

    If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    10. [I 不及物动词] 基于（一个假设）而行动

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    11. [T 及物动词] 使干活

    If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    12. [T 及物动词] 开垦

    When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops.

    双语例句

    例：

    Farmers worked the fertile valleys.

    农民开垦了这个肥沃的山谷。

    13. [T 及物动词] 操作（机器或设备）

    If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it.

    近义词

    operate

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

    14. [I 不及物动词] 逐渐变成

    If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition.

    双语例句

    例：

    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。

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