| 单词 | work |
| 释义 | work I. 1. a. < the hours of busiest work and closest application — W.C.Brownell > — contrasted with play b. < six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work — Exod 20:9 (Authorized Version) > < the work of a permanent secretary is worth £3,000 a year — Virginia Woolf > c. < sculling against a swift current is work — Richard Jefferies > d. < the work of putting up storm windows > e. < the handler's work is to put the goods on the siding but not to load the car > 2. a. < these boulder deposits are the work of glaciers > b. < sand dunes are the work of sea and wind > c. 3. a. < tracked down by careful police work > < sonata with intricate passage work for the right hand > < telecast was notable for the flexibility of the camera work — Irene Kuhn > b. < silver work of earlier artists > < fine porcelain work in many styles > or employment of a particular technique < boxes adorned with elaborate filigree work > c. 4. a. b. works plural 5. works plural but singular or plural in construction < cement works > < chemical works > < start in the office rather than in the works — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > 6. works plural < cleaning the works of a clock > 7. a. dialect England b. 8. a. < this book is the work of many hands > b. < literary, scientific, and artistic works, including writings, musical, dramatic, and cinematographic works, and paintings, engravings, and sculpture — Universal Copyright Convention > c. < made the work up-to-date, brisk, with only one 45-minute degree — C.W.Ferguson > 9. works plural < faith by itself if it has no works, is dead — Jas 2:17 (Revised Standard Version) > < salvation by works > < performance of all the works prescribed by the law — E.F.Scott > 10. a. < wait for time to do its healing work > < loathed war and all its works — V.L.Parrington > b. < better tools make for better work > 11. a. < the work was put under the drop hammer and quickly pounded into shape for the next operation > b. 12. 13. works plural a. < I had the works, the bottom half of the menu, from grapefruit to rice pudding — Saul Bellow > < builders are including complete kitchens … and buyers want the works — Kiplinger Washington Letter > < the whole works, rod, reel, tackle box, went overboard > b. < get the works > or give < gave him the works > 14. slang Synonyms: < the work of a ditchdigger > < a miner's work is difficult > occupation may indicate the trade, craft, vocation, or profession which one has chosen and prepared himself for and which one is apt usually to follow < allowed to choose his occupation — W.R.Inge > or whatever occupies one's time and energies, quite purposefully as a means of livelihood or less so as an avocation or interest < a generation still in the process of discovering its own identity and desperately engaged in that occupation — R.B.West > employment is likely to center attention on an employer-employee relationship and imply an agreement or contract about wages or working conditions < resumed his employment with the Smith Plumbing Company, plumbing being his occupation > or may indicate merely that at which one employs himself, without suggestions of work < their chief employment is to talk of what they once were and of what they may yet be — T.B.Macaulay > business suggests work of a commercial or mercantile nature and is likely to be limited to situations of authority unless the question of a rightful or suitable assumption of a role or function is concerned < his business is selling insurance and my work as clerk in his office is not very hard > business in situations not involving means of livelihood may be used in reference to financial transactions or to necessary and burdensome tasks but hardly to avocations < the messy business of infant feeding — New Yorker > pursuit may suggest either a vocation or an avocation followed with zeal or resolution < lost all soul or sensation, but for this one pursuit — Mary W. Shelley > < the law, being a profession, was accounted a more gentlemanly pursuit than business — Edith Wharton > calling may indicate a profession or vocation to which one has been called by some inspiration or intuition < that luckiest of fairy-gifts, a calling, an industry, something that she loved to do — L.P.Smith > or may indicate the simplest craft or trade < in his shepherd's calling he was prompt — William Wordsworth > Synonyms: < labor is doing what we must; leisure is doing what we like — G.B.Shaw > < any activity becomes work when it is directed by accomplishment of a definite material result, and it is labor only as the activities are onerous, undergone as mere means by which to secure a result — John Dewey > toil indicates fatiguing prolonged work < the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing: this frightful toil is as much critical as creative — T.S.Eliot > travail is likely to stress painfulness, difficulty, or struggle in work < the sentimentalist escapes the stern travail of thought — J.L.Lowes > < I must admit the doubt in view of the travail that I suffered — B.N.Cardozo > grind suggests dreary monotonous repetition of burdensome or taxing work < nothing left for my mother to do but to take in student boarders. This she did until every child was out of college — a long hard grind — A.W.Long > drudgery applies to continuing dull, menial, irksome work < drudgery can be cut down. Most men have had to dig for their lives since Adam, but this is now avoidable — Francis Hackett > < the act of scrupulous revision (endless pruning and trimming for the sake of a sound and flexible prose style) that provides the writer's best solace even while it makes drudgery — Ellen Glasgow > • - at work - in the works - in work - make short work of - out of work II. 1. < work clothes > < work shoes > 2. < work elephant > III. transitive verb 1. < work havoc > < work miracles > < had meant to work her own will on the interior of the house — Arnold Bennett > 2. a. < work flint into tools > b. < the buttonholes of the dress were worked in a contrasting color > < worked a floral design in wool and silk on the shawl > 3. a. < work the putty into the right consistency > b. < work cold steel > 4. < work cattle in a roundup > : cause to operate or produce < a pump worked by hand > < work a quarry > < work farmland > 5. < work difficult calculations in his head > 6. a. < worked his horses nearly to death > : get work out of : cause to perform < work dogs in a circus act > b. < worked her charm and looks to get her way > : exploit c. < all the yard switches are worked from a central tower > 7. < the salesman worked both sides of the street > < fisherman worked the stream from the bridge down to the pool > 8. < work out a fine > < work off a debt > < worked his way through college > 9. a. < worked himself out of his bonds and called the police > < worked himself into a position of leadership > < patiently working the boulder out of the hole > < swinging his arms to work the stiffness out of his shoulders > b. < we can work it so that you can take your vacation > 10. a. archaic < I have been working him to abandon her — Sir Walter Scott > b. < worked the management for a free ticket > c. < worked himself into a rage > 11. 12. < apples worked on seedling stocks are often especially vigorous > 13. 14. 15. intransitive verb 1. a. b. < worked for hours clearing up the yard > < working away at his algebra > < working all day over a hot stove > < working on his book for years > c. < he works at plumbing > < works in an insurance office > < works for an oil company > < obliged to work for a living > 2. a. archaic b. obsolete 3. < the mechanism was heavy and awkward but it worked > < hinges work better with oil > 4. < developments which work for increasing the significance of the net income figure — Journal of Accountancy > 5. < all things work together for good to them that love God — Rom 8:28 (Authorized Version) > — often used with out < hoped the plan would work out > 6. a. < worked up from office boy to president > b. 7. < this wood works easily > 8. a. < the sea works high — Shakespeare > b. c. < worked in a seaway … and leaked — Alan Villiers > d. < the shaft works in its bearing > e. of rock f. < the knot worked loose > < plug worked out of the pipe > < his jacket had worked up at the back of his neck > 9. Synonyms: see act • - work at - work double tides - work even - work into - work on - work one's way - work the oracle - work upon - work water IV. < politicians working the crowd > < worked the room > |
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