1. | [i] 做体力（或脑力）工作；劳动；干活to do sth that involves physical or mental effort, especially as part of a job |
I can't work if I'm cold. 我要是觉得冷就干不了活。 | |
I've been working at my assignment all day. 我整天都在做作业。 | |
He is working on a new novel. 他正在写一部新小说。 | |
She's outside, working on the car. 她在外面修理汽车。 | |
Doctors often work very long hours. 医生经常长时间工作。 |
2. | [i] 受雇于；从事…工作to have a job |
Both my parents work. 我父母都工作。 | |
She works for an engineering company. 她在一家工程公司工作。 | |
I've always worked in education. 我一直从事教育工作。 | |
Do you enjoy working with children? 你喜欢做儿童工作吗？ | |
My son is working as a teacher. 我的儿子是当老师的。 |
3. | [t] ~ yourself/sb + adv./prep. 使工作；（尤指）使卖力干活to make yourself/sb work, especially very hard |
She works herself too hard. 她工作起来太不辞劳苦了。 |
4. | [i] 争取；力争；努力取得to make efforts to achieve sth |
She dedicated her life to working for peace. 她为争取和平奉献了自己的一生。 | |
The committee is working to get the prisoners freed. 委员会正在设法营救那些被监禁的人出狱。 |
5. | [t] ~ sth 管理，经营（以获利）to manage or operate sth to gain benefit from it |
to work the land(= grow crops on it, etc.) 耕种土地 | |
He works a large area(= selling a company's goods, etc.) . 他负责一个大地区的工作。 | |
She was a skilful speaker who knew how to work a crowd(= to excite them or make them feel sth strongly) . 她是个很有技巧的演讲者，善于感召听众。 |
6. | [i] 运转；运行to function; to operate |
The phone isn't working. 这部电话坏了。 | |
It works by electricity. 这是电动的。 | |
Are they any closer to understanding how the brain works? 他们对大脑功能的了解有进展吗？ |
7. | [t] ~ sth 开动，操作（机器、装置等）；使运作to make a machine, device, etc. operate |
Do you know how to work the coffee machine? 你会使用咖啡机吗？ | |
The machine is worked by wind power. 这台机器是以风力推动的。 |
8. | [i] 奏效；产生预期的结果（或作用）to have the result or effect that you want |
The pills the doctor gave me aren't working. 医生给我的药片不管事。 | |
My plan worked, and I got them to agree. 我的计划奏效了，我让他们同意了。 | |
His charm doesn't work on me(= does not affect or impress me) . 我不为他的魅力所动。 |
9. | [i] 产生…作用to have a particular effect |
Your age can work against you in this job. 你的年纪会妨碍你干这个工作。 | |
Speaking Italian should work in his favour. 会说意大利语应对他有好处。 |
10. | [t] ~ sth 使奏效；（由于努力）造成，产生to cause or produce sth as a result of effort |
You can work miracles with very little money if you follow our home decoration tips. 你要是按照我们的家居装饰建议行事，可以用很少的钱就产生奇妙的效果。 |
11. | [t] （通过压挤、拉长、锤击等）使成形，使定形to make a material into a particular shape or form by pressing, stretching, hitting it, etc. |
to work clay 制陶 | |
to work gold 打制金器 | |
to work the mixture into a paste 把混合物调成糊状 |
12. | [i] ~ in/with sth 用某种材料作画（或编制、编织等）to use a particular material to produce a picture or other item |
an artist working in oils 油画画家 | |
a craftsman working with wool 毛织手工艺人 |
13. | [i] 抽动；抽搐；颤动to move violently |
He stared at me in horror, his mouth working. 他恐惧地盯着我，嘴在抽搐着。 |
14. | [i][t] （逐渐地）移动（到某位置）；（逐步）变成（某状态）to move or pass to a particular place or state, usually gradually |
It will take a while for the drug to work out of your system. 这药需要一段时间才能从你体内排出。 | |
He worked his way to the top of his profession. 他一步一步努力，终于成为行业内的翘楚。 | |
I was tied up, but managed to work myself free. 我被捆绑起来，但设法挣脱了绳索。 | |
The screw had worked loose . 这螺丝钉松动了。 |
Can you work it so that we get free tickets? 你能不能为我们搞到些免费票？ |
Can you work it so that we get free tickets? 你能不能为我们搞到些免费票？ |
1. | [u] 工作；职业the job that a person does especially in order to earn money |
She had been out of work(= without a job) for a year. 她已经失业一年了。 | |
They are in work(= have a job) . 他们有工作。 | |
He started work as a security guard. 他开始工作时做保安员。 | |
It is difficult to find work in the present economic climate. 在目前这种经济大气候下很难找到工作。 | |
I'm still looking for work. 我仍在找工作。 | |
She's planning to return to work once the children start school. 她正计划孩子一入学就恢复上班。 | |
What line of work are you in(= what type of work do you do) ? 你干哪种工作？ | |
before/after work(= in the morning/evening each day) 上班前；下班后 | |
full-time/part-time/unpaid/voluntary work 全日制╱兼职╱无报酬的╱志愿工作 |
2. | [u] 职责；工作内容the duties that you have and the activities that you do as part of your job |
Police work is mainly routine. 警察的工作主要都是按常规的。 | |
The accountant described his work to the sales staff. 会计师向销售部的职员介绍了自己的职责。 |
3. | [u] 工作；活计tasks that need to be done |
There is plenty of work to be done in the garden. 花园里有很多活要干。 | |
Taking care of a baby is hard work . 照看婴儿是件苦差。 | |
I have some work for you to do. 我有些事要你做。 | |
Stop talking and get on with your work. 别说话了，继续干你们的活儿吧。 |
4. | [u] 工作所需的材料（或档案等）materials needed or used for doing work , especially books, papers, etc. |
She often brings work(= for example, files and documents) home with her from the office. 她经常把办公室里的工作带回家。 | |
His work was spread all over the floor. 他工作的材料摊了一地。 |
5. | [u] 工作地点；工作单位；工作场所the place where you do your job |
I go to work at 8 o'clock. 我 8 点钟去上班。 | |
When do you leave for work ? 你什么时候去上班？ | |
The new legislation concerns health and safety at work . 这项新法规涉及工作场所的健康与安全。 | |
I have to leave work early today. 我今天得早点儿下班。 | |
Her friends from work came to see her in the hospital. 她工作单位的朋友来医院看望她。 |
6. | [u] 工作；劳动the use of physical strength or mental power in order to do or make sth |
She earned her grades through sheer hard work . 她的学习成绩完全是靠刻苦用功得来的。 | |
We started work on the project in 2009. 我们从 2009 年开始干这个项目。 | |
Work continues on renovating the hotel. 修整这家旅馆的工作在继续。 | |
The work of building the bridge took six months. 修建这座桥的工作用了六个月的时间。 | |
The art collection was his life's work . 收集艺术品是他一生的工作。 | |
She set them to work painting the fence. 她让他们粉刷围墙。 |
7. | [u] 工作成果；产品；作品a thing or things that are produced as a result of work |
She's an artist whose work I really admire. 她这位艺术家的作品令我赞赏不已。 | |
Is this all your own work(= did you do it without help from others) ? 这件作品是你独立完成的吗？ | |
The book is a detailed and thorough piece of work covering all aspects of the subject. 这本书包括了这一学科的方方面面，是一部缜密翔实的大作。 |
8. | [u] 作为；行动结果the result of an action; what is done by sb |
The damage is clearly the work of vandals. 这毁损显然是些恣意破坏公物的人所为。 |
9. | [c] 著作；作品a book, piece of music, painting, etc. |
the collected/complete works of Tolstoy 托尔斯泰选集╱全集 | |
works of fiction/literature 小说╱文学作品 | |
Beethoven's piano works 贝多芬的钢琴曲 |
10. | [pl] 建；修；修建activities involving building or repairing sth |
roadworks 道路施工 | |
They expanded the shipyards and started engineering works. 他们扩建造船厂，开始了工程施工。 |
11. | [cspv] 工厂a place where things are made or industrial processes take place |
an engineering works 机器制造厂 | |
a brickworks 砖厂 |
12. | [pl] （机器等的）活动部件the moving parts of a machine, etc. |
13. | [pl] (informal) 所有的事物；全套物品everything |
We went to the chip shop and had the works: fish, chips, gherkins, mushy peas. 我们去薯条店吃了套餐：炸鱼、炸薯条、小黄瓜、豆泥。 |
14. | [u] 功；做功the use of force to produce movement |
She suspected that secret influences were at work. 她怀疑有些秘密势力在作祟。 |
He is still at work on the painting. 他仍在忙着画那幅画。 | |
Danger─men at work. 危险 — 有人施工。 |
She suspected that secret influences were at work. 她怀疑有些秘密势力在作祟。 |
He is still at work on the painting. 他仍在忙着画那幅画。 | |
Danger─men at work. 危险 — 有人施工。 |
We set to work on the outside of the house(= for example, painting it) . 我们从屋子的外部开始干了起来。 |
We set to work on the outside of the house(= for example, painting it) . 我们从屋子的外部开始干了起来。 |
She went cheerfully about her work. 她高高兴兴地做自己的工作。 |
She went cheerfully about her work. 她高高兴兴地做自己的工作。 |
You'll have your work cut out to get there by nine o'clock. 你九点钟前赶到那里可不容易。 |
You'll have your work cut out to get there by nine o'clock. 你九点钟前赶到那里可不容易。 |
