- VERB 工作;从业;就职
People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
- Weiner works for the US Department of Transport...
韦纳就职于美国交通部。 - I started working in a recording studio...
我开始在一个录音棚工作。 - Where do you work?...
你在哪儿工作? - He worked as a bricklayer's mate...
他给瓦工打下手。 - I want to work, I don't want to be on welfare.
我想去工作,不想吃救济。
- N-UNCOUNT 工作;职业
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...
就业人数越来越少。 - I was out of work at the time...
那时我失业了。 - She'd have enough money to provide for her children until she could find work...
她在找到工作前应该有足够的钱供养孩子。 - What kind of work do you do?
你是做什么工作的?
- VERB 工作;劳动;干活
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...
这会儿我不能跟你说话——我在干活儿。 - He was working at his desk...
他正在桌前用功。 - Some firms expect the guards to work twelve hours a day.
有些公司要求保安每天工作12小时。
The verb work has a different meaning in the continuous tenses than it does in the simple tenses. You use the continuous tenses, with the '-ing' form, to talk about a temporary job, but the simple tenses to talk about a permanent job. For example, if you say 'I'm working in London', this suggests that the situation is temporary and you may soon move to a different place. If you say 'I work in London', this suggests that London is your permanent place of work.
动词 work 用于进行时和一般时时意义不同。用于进行时表示工作是临时性的,例如,I'm working in London (我目前在伦敦工作)暗示这种情形是暂时的,可能很快就会迁移到另一个地方。用于一般时则表示工作是固定的,例如,I work in London (我在伦敦工作),暗示伦敦是固定的工作地点。
- N-UNCOUNT 工作;活儿;活计
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...
我们在这里应该是要经营公司。我有一堆的事情要做。 - I used to take work home, but I don't do it any more...
我过去常把活儿带回家干,不过我如今再也不这么做了。 - There have been days when I have finished work at 2pm.
有一段时间我凌晨两点才干完活儿。 - ...an image of teaching which highlighted the stressful and difficult aspects of the teacher's work.
突出显示了教师工作的压力和困难的教学场景
- VERB 努力干;用功
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...
琳达把所有时间都花在打理花园上。 - While I was working on my letter the telephone rang...
我正在写信,电话铃响了。 - Leonard was working at his German. His mistakes made her laugh...
伦纳德正在学习德语,他出的洋相让她哈哈大笑。 - The most important reason for coming to university is to work for a degree...
上大学最重要的原因就是要拿个学位。 - The government expressed hope that all the sides will work towards a political solution.
政府表示希望各方共同努力,制订出政治解决方案。 - Work is also a noun.
- There was a lot of work to do on their house...
他们的房子有很多地方需要收拾。 - We hadn't appreciated how much work was involved in organizing a wedding...
我们没有意识到筹备婚礼有多少事情要做。 - He said that the peace plan would be rejected because it needed more work.
他说和平计划会被否决,因为还需要进一步修改。
- N-UNCOUNT 工作单位;工作地点
Work is the place where you do your job.
- Many people travel to work by car...
很多人开车去上班。 - She told her friends at work that she was trying to lose weight.
她跟单位的朋友说她在努力减肥。
- N-UNCOUNT 工作成果
Work is something which 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...
让客观公正的第三方看一下你的成果会有助益。 - Tidiness in the workshop is really essential for producing good work...
工作间干净整洁对于生产出好的产品非常重要。 - That's a beautiful piece of work. You should be proud of it.
那件作品非常漂亮,你应当为之自豪。
- N-COUNT (艺术家、作家、作曲家等的)作品;著作
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...
我认为这是伦勃朗最伟大的作品。 - Under his arm, there was a book which looked like the complete works of Shakespeare...
他胳膊底下夹着一本书,看上去就像是夹了《莎士比亚全集》。 - The church has several valuable works of art.
教堂有几件珍贵的艺术品。
- VERB 研究;对…作调查
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.
邦尼特教授多年来一直在从事这种分子的研究工作。 - Work is also a noun.
- Their work shows that one-year-olds are much more likely to have allergies if either parent smokes.
他们的研究表明,如果父母中有一人吸烟,一岁婴儿患过敏的可能性就会大大增加。
- VERB 协助;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.
- 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。 - He knew then that he wanted to work among the poor.
他那时明白了自己想帮助穷人。 - Work is also a noun.
- ...a highly respected priest who is noted for his work with the poor...
以救助穷人闻名的备受尊敬的教士 - She became involved in social and relief work among the refugees.
她参加了帮助难民的社会救济工作。
- VERB (机器或设备)运转,运行
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...
水泵坏了,我们没有自来水了。 - Is the telephone working today?...
电话今天能用吗? - Ned turned on the lanterns, which worked with batteries...
内德打开开关亮起了装电池的灯笼。 - How does the gun work?
这枪怎么用?
- VERB 奏效;成功
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95%都不起作用。 - If lust is all there is to hold you together, the relationship will never work...
如果肉欲是你们在一起的唯一理由,这种关系是不会持久的。 - I shouldn't have come, I knew it wouldn't work...
我不应该来,我知道这起不了什么作用。 - A methodical approach works best.
有条不紊的方法效果最佳。
- VERB (药物)起作用,产生疗效
If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect.
- I wake at 6 am as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours...
安眠药的药效不会超过9个小时,所以我清晨6点就醒了。 - The drug works by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain.
这种药物通过提高大脑中血清素的含量来产生疗效。
- VERB 产生(有利或不利的)影响
If something works in your favour, it helps you in some way. If something works to your disadvantage, it causes problems for you in some way.
- One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image...
据认为,一个帮上了他的因素就是他的工人阶级形象。 - This obviously works against the interests of the child.
这显然会对孩子不利。
- VERB 对…产生(神奇的影响);使…深受(魅力感染)
If something or someone works their magic or works their charms on a person, they have a powerful positive effect on them.
- Nevertheless, she is always optimistic about the possibilities and can work her charm on the disenchanted...
虽然如此,她总是乐观地抱持希望,并能深深地感染那些心灰意冷的人。 - Our spirits rallied as the bitter-sweet alcohol worked its magic.
苦中带甜的酒发挥了奇效,我们的精神随之振奋起来。
- VERB (脑筋)转动,开动
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.
我的大脑疯狂地运转,把那晚发生的事情飞快地一幕幕重演。
- VERB 以(某种假定或思想)为基础(或前提)
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。
- VERB 在(某地或某类场所)工作;在…奔波
If you work a particular area or type of place, you travel around that area or work in those places as part of your job, for example trying to sell something there.
- Brand has been working the clubs and the pubs since 1986, developing her comedy act...
布兰德自1986年以来一直在俱乐部和酒吧表演,提高她的喜剧演技。 - This is the seventh year that he has worked the streets of Manhattan.
这是他在曼哈顿街头献艺的第7个年头。
- VERB 让…干活;让…工作
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,我老了,干不了这种活儿啦。 - They didn't take my father away, but kept him in the village and worked him to death.
他们没有把我爸爸带走,而是一直让他在村里干活,把他活活累死了。
- VERB (常指政客或艺人)博得,赢得(众人的支持或欢心)
If someone, often a politician or entertainer, works a crowd, they create a good relationship with the people in the crowd and get their support or interest.
- The Prime Minister has an ability to work a crowd — some might even suggest it is a kind of charm...
首相有种感召人群的本事——有些人甚至认为这是一种魅力。 - He worked the room like a politician, gripping hands, and slapping backs.
他又是握手,又是拍背,像个政客一样把一屋子的人都笼络了一番。
- VERB 种,耕种(地)
When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops.
- Farmers worked the fertile valleys.
农民们在肥沃的山谷里耕种。
- VERB 开采(矿)
When a mine is worked, minerals such as coal or gold are removed from it.
- The mines had first been worked in 1849, when gold was discovered in California...
1849年加利福尼亚发现金矿时,这些矿第一次被开采。 - Only an agreed number of men was allowed to work any given seam at any given time.
只有少数得到批准的人可以在特定时间开采特定的矿层。
- VERB 使用,操纵(机器或设备)
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.
很多成年人仍然要靠孩子来操作录像机。
- VERB 慢慢变成;逐渐变得
If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition.
- A screw had worked loose from my glasses.
我眼镜上有一个螺丝松了。
- VERB 按,压,揉(面团、黏土等)
If you work a substance such as dough or clay, you keep pressing it to make it have a particular texture.
- Work the dough with the palm of your hand until it is very smooth...
用手掌将面团揉至光滑为止。 - Remove rind from the cheese and work it to a firm paste, with a fork.
将奶酪的外皮去掉,用叉子将其压成硬硬的膏状。
- VERB 加工;处理
If you work a material such as metal, leather, or stone, you cut, sew, or shape it in order to make something or to create a design.
- ...the machines needed to extract and work the raw stone.
开采加工原石的机器 - ...a long, cool tunnel of worked stone.
一条跨度长且阴凉的石凿隧道
- VERB 使用,采用(某种材料或物质)
If you work with a particular substance or material, you use it in order to make something or to create a design.
- He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay.
他学习雕塑是因为他喜欢玩黏土。
- V-ERG (使)(身体某部分)活动
If you work a part of your body, or if it works, you move it.
- Each position will work the muscles in a different way...
每种姿势都会以不同方式活动肌肉。 - Her mouth was working in her sleep.
她睡着的时候嘴巴还在动。
- N-COUNT-COLL 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.
- The steel works could be seen for miles.
这个钢厂几英里外都能看见。 - ...a recycling works.
回收工厂 - ...the works canteen.
工厂餐厅
- N-PLURAL 土木工程;建筑工程
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年间进行的破坏性的建筑工程、道路修筑和城市扩建
- N-SING (某种类型的)全部物件,全套物品
You can say the works after listing things such as someone's possessions or requirements, to emphasize that they possess or require everything you can think of in a particular category.
- Amazing place he's got there—squash courts, swimming pool, jacuzzi, the works.
他的那个地方真是太棒了——壁球场、游泳池、按摩浴池,一应俱全。
- See also: working
- PHRASE 干活儿;做工作;忙着做事
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...
救援队已经在紧张地设法处理溢出的石油。 - He is currently at work on a novel...
他这会儿正忙着写一篇小说。 - Television cameras were invited in to film him at work.
电视台摄像师被请进来拍摄他工作的镜头。
- PHRASE 起作用;发挥效用
If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect.
- The report suggested that the same trend was at work in politics...
这份报告表明,同一趋势也在影响着政治。 - It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.
重要的是,要理解在我们自身行动背后起作用的强大的经济和社会力量。
- PHRASE (做…)有很大困难,困难重重
If you say that you will have your work cut out to do something, you mean that it will be a very difficult task.
- The new administration has its work cut out for it. Creating jobs in this kind of environment is not going to be easy...
新一届政府面临重重困难。在这种环境下创造就业机会绝非易事。 - He will have his work cut out to get into the team.
他要进入该队困难重重。
- PHRASE 已列入计划;已开始
If something is in the works, it has already been planned or begun.
- He said there were dozens of economic plans in the works...
他说有几十项经济计划已经开始实施。 - Nobody should be surprised by this. It's been in the works for some time.
不应该有人对此感到惊奇,这事已经张罗了有一阵子了。
in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 in the pipeline
- PHRASE (费力或轻而易举地)做,完成
You can use work to talk about how easily or quickly a particular task is done. For example, if a person or thing makes short work of doing something or makes light work of it, they do it quickly and easily.
- An aerosol spray will make short work of painting awkward objects...
用喷罐来喷涂,不好对付的物品也能轻松搞定。 - This horse made light work of the cross-country course...
这匹马轻松地跑完了越野赛程。 - Australia made hard work of beating them.
澳大利亚队非常艰难地击败了他们。
- PHRASE 讨厌鬼;恶棍
If you describe someone as a nasty piece of work, you think they are very unpleasant or cruel.
- Underneath I think he's actually a rather nasty piece of work.
内心里我觉得他是个非常讨厌的家伙。
- PHRASE 让…工作;派给…任务
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实现就业。 - Instead of sending them to prison, we have set them to work helping the lemon growers.
我们没有把他们送进监狱,而是让他们帮种柠檬的果农干活儿。
- PHRASE 开始做;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.
- He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit...
他承诺着手解决国家庞大的财政赤字问题。 - He returned to America where he set to work on a new novel.
他返回美国,开始写一部新小说。
- PHRASE 艰难地移动;缓慢地取得进展
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...
营救人员仍在艰难地向被困者靠拢。 - Many personnel managers started as secretaries or personnel assistants and worked their way up.
很多人事经理最初是从秘书或人事助理做起,然后慢慢升上去的。
- CONVENTION 干得不错;干得漂亮
You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
- Nice work, Matthew. I knew you could do it.
干得好,马修。我知道你能行。
- to throw a spanner in the works → see: spanner