| 单词 | to make work for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make work for (c) to make work for: to give (a person, etc.) something to do; (with negative connotation) to necessitate (inconvenient or troublesome) labour or effort from (a person, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > set (person) to work > give or prepare work for to make work for?1543 to cut out work1591 ?1543Make worke for [see Phrases 2d(b)(ii)]. 1570 W. Elderton Newe Well a Daye (single sheet) Such as seduce the people with blyndnes, and byd them to trust the Pope and his kyndnes Make worke for the tynker, as prouerbes doth saie, by such popishe patching. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 303 Yong Arthur..Who..this day hath made Much worke for teares in many an English mother. View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 238 Lest by sauing their workmanship, my selfe might haue made worke for the hang-man. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 2 To..make more Work for the Hempen Whores in London. 1798 T. Dibdin Mouth of Nile iii. 25 The French took a trip to the Banks of the Nile, To make work for brave Admiral Nelson. 1837 C. M. Sedgwick Live & let Live xix. 191 All sorts of notions that have no use but just to be taken care of and make work for us. 1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 233 We are creating shifting sands by the removal of the forest-cover, to make work for the ingenuity of our children in devising methods for fixing these sands again. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders v. 143 The foreman to whom he had been allotted had to make work for him. 1945 D. Bolster Roll on my Twelve 33 Chaps we'd picked up dying on deck, which always induces a bit of gloom, besides making extra work for everyone. 2011 New Yorker 28 Mar. 51/2 The idea that breaking windows is economically useful, because it makes work for glaziers. < as lemmas |
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