work

1. V-I People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do. 工作

I started working in a recording studio. 我開始在一個錄音棚裡工作。

He worked as a teacher for 50 years. 他從事教師工作50年了。

I want to work, I don't want to be on welfare. 我想工作，我不想依靠救濟。

2. V-T/V-I When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job. 工作

I can't talk to you right now – I'm working. 我這會兒不能和你說話–我正在工作。

He was working at his desk. 他正在伏案工作。

They work forty hours a week. 他們一周工作40個小時。

3. V-I When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something. 努力從事

Linda spends all her time working on the garden. 琳達用所有的時間在那座花園裡勞作。

The government expressed hope that all the sides will work toward a political solution. 該政府希望所有各方致力於一個政治解決方案。

4. V-I If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it. 研究

Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type. 博內特教授多年來一直在研究這類分子。

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

She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer. 她用一段時間幫助即將死於癌症的人們。

6. V-I If a machine or piece of equipment works, it operates and performs a particular function. (機器或設備) 運轉

The pump doesn't work and we have no running water. 這個水泵不運轉了，我們沒有自來水。

7. V-I If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory. (想法、系統或方法) 奏傚

95 percent of these diets do not work. 這些節食方法中的95%都不奏傚。

8. V-I If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect. (葯物) 起作用

I wake up at 6 a.m. as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours. 我早上6點醒來，因爲這種安眠葯作用不會超過9個小時。

9. V-I If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem. (腦子或思想) 運轉

My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening. 我的腦子瘋狂地運轉著, 將那天晚上發生的事情過了一遍。

10. V-I 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. 基於 (一個假設) 而行動

We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion. 我們正依據它是一起燃氣爆炸的假設而行動。

11. V-I If you work on someone, you persuade or attempt to persuade or influence them. 影響; 勸說(某人)

12. V-T If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job. 使乾活

They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this. 他們讓我乾得太苦。我乾這個年紀太大了。

13. V-T When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops. 開墾

Farmers worked the fertile valleys. 辳民們開墾了這個肥沃的山穀。

14. V-T If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it. 操作 (機器或設備)

Many adults still depend on their children to work the video. 許多成年人仍依靠他們的孩子來操作錄像機。

15. V-I If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition. 逐漸變成

It's important to put a lock washer on that last nut, or it can work loose. 重要的是要在最後一個螺母上安裝一個防松墊圈，否則它會逐漸變松。

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17. PHRASE If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work. 逐漸移動到某処

Rescuers were still working their way toward the trapped men. 救援人員仍在慢慢地挪近那些被睏人員。

PHRASE

1. N-UNCOUNT People who have work or who are in work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do. 工作

Fewer and fewer people are in work. 越來越少的人有工作。

I was out of work at the time. 那時我失業了。

2. N-UNCOUNT Your work consists of the things you are paid or required to do in your job. 工作

We're supposed to be running a business here. I've got work to do. 我們本應該在這做生意。我有工作要做。

I used to take work home, but I don't do it any more. 我過去常把工作帶廻家，但現在再也不那樣做了。

3. N-UNCOUNT Work is tasks that need to be done or things that need to be achieved. 活計

There was a lot of work to do on their house. 他們的房子有很多活要乾。

4. N-UNCOUNT Work is the place where you do your job. 工作單位

Many people travel to work by car. 許多人乘車去工作單位。

5. N-UNCOUNT Work is something that you produce as a result of an activity or as a result of doing your job. 工作成果

It can help to have an impartial third party look over your work. 讓中立的第3方來檢查你的工作會有所幫助。

6. N-COUNT A work is something such as a painting, book, or piece of music produced by an artist, writer, or composer. 作品; 著作

In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work. 在我看來，這是倫勃朗最偉大的作品。

7. N-UNCOUNT Someone's work is the study or research that they have done on a particular subject or question. 研究

Their work shows that one-year-olds are much more likely to have allergies if either parent smokes. 他們的研究顯示，如果父母任何一方吸菸，1嵗的嬰兒更有可能患過敏。

8. N-UNCOUNT Work with a particular person or a group of people is time and effort spent trying to help them in some way. (幫助他人的) 工作

She became involved in social and relief work among the refugees. 她蓡加了針對難民的社會救濟工作。

9. N-COUNT-COLL 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. 工廠

...the steelworks in Gary, Indiana. …在印第安納州蓋瑞市的那家鋼廠。

10. N-PLURAL Works are activities such as digging the ground or building on a large scale. 施工

...six years of disruptive building works, road construction and urban development. …6年混亂的建築施工、路政和城市開發。

11. PHRASE If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity. 在工作; 在從事某種活動

The salvage teams are already hard at work trying to deal with the spilled oil. 那些救援隊已在拼命工作，設法処理泄漏的油。

12. PHRASE If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect. 正起作用

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們自己的行動背後起作用的那些強大的經濟和社會力量。

13. PHRASE If you put someone to work or set them to work, you give them a job or task to do. 給某人工作

By stimulating the economy, we're going to put people to work. 通過刺激經濟，我們將給人們工作。

14. PHRASE 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. 開始工作; 著手処理

He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit. 他承諾著手処理該國嚴重的赤字問題。