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单词 work out
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work out

1(Of an equation) be capable of being solved.The way things worked was easy… I can show you how an algebra equation works out on paper....
  • If you offer no resistance to your own magick, Carroll's equations work out in your favor.
1.1 (work out at) Be calculated at: the losses work out at $2.94 a share...
  • By my calculations, this worked out at £10 per foreign word on the menu.
  • Since 1999 the index has fallen by more than 2,800 points, and the loss to EFM on this basis would work out at £17m.
  • That's an individual rate of 200 fines annually per warden, which works out at just one successful fine per warden every 1.8 days.

Synonyms

amount to, add up to, come to, total;
British tot up to
2Have a good or specified result: things don’t always work out that way...
  • An example of false optimism: ‘Everything always works out in the end.’
  • But we've been in bad situations before, and everything has always worked out.
  • Everywhere I have been, people think I always have the answers because everything always works out.

Synonyms

succeed, be successful, work, turn out well, go as planned, get results, be effective
informal come off, pay off, do the trick, do the business
end up, turn out, go, come out, develop, evolve, result;
happen, occur
informal pan out
3Engage in vigorous physical exercise: they regularly walked, danced, ran and worked out at the gym...
  • He was doing Pilates and working out with oversized exercise balls long before either became trendy.
  • Stewart has been spending a lot of the off season in town, working out with teammates and studying with Gilbride.
  • I don't care how many hours a day an athlete works out or how many women have commented on his ‘glistening, rippling muscles,’ the rest of us do not need to see him naked.

Synonyms

exercise, do exercises, train
See parent entry: work
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