works
- v.使工作;劳动;从事…工作;干活;受雇于;(尤指)使卖力干活;做体力(或脑力)工作
- n.工作;职业;职责;工作内容;活计;作品
- work的第三人称单数和复数;working的第三人称单数
worksThese are all words for buildings or places where things are made or where industrial processes take place.以上各词均指工厂、车间、工场、制造厂。
a building or group of buildings where goods are made 指工厂、制造厂：
a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory
巧克力厂；香烟厂；制衣厂
a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place 指发电厂、工厂：
a nuclear power plant
核电厂
a manufacturing plant
制造厂
a factory that produces a particular type of material 指（生产特定材料的）工厂、制造厂：
a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill
棉纺厂；造纸厂；纺织厂；毛纺厂
(often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place （常构成复合词）指工厂、制造厂：
a brickworks
砖厂
a steelworks
炼钢厂
Raw materials were carried to the works by barge.
原材料由驳船运到工厂。
(usually in compounds) an area of land used for building sth （通常构成复合词）指建造某物的区域、场地：
a shipyard
船坞
a room or building in which things are made or repaired using tools or machinery 指车间、工场、作坊：
a car repair workshop
汽车修理厂
a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects 指铸造厂、玻璃厂：
an iron foundry
铸铁厂
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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to throw a spanner in the works→ see:spanner
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- performance of moral or religious acts
- salvation by deeds
- the reward for good works
- Synonym: deeds
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- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
- Synonym: plant industrial plant
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- the internal mechanism of a device
- Synonym: workings
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- everything available;usually preceded by `the'
- we saw the whole shebang
- a hotdog with the works
- we took on the whole caboodle
- for $10 you get the full treatment
- Synonym: whole shebang whole kit and caboodle kit and caboodle whole kit and boodle kit and boodle whole kit whole caboodle whole works full treatment
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The gallery houses 2 000 works of modern art .
美术馆收藏了2000件现代艺术作品。
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The gallery possesses a number of the artist 's early works .
这座画廊藏有那位画家的一些早期作品。
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There 's a time to work and a time to play .
工作、玩耍皆有时。
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Let 's be practical and work out the cost first .
咱们实际一点儿，先计算一下成本费用。
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She had been out of work for a year .
她已经失业一年了。
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People came from all over the world to view her work .
观众从世界各地涌来欣赏她的作品。
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People came from all over the world to view her work .
人们从世界各地涌来欣赏她的作品。
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No one in their right mind would choose to work there .
任何一个精神正常的人都不会选择去那里工作。
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People tend to work hard at this stage of life .
人在这个人生阶段往往发奋努力。
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Her work was well below average for the class .
她的功课远在班上的中等水平以下。
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Is this all your own work ?
这件作品是你独立完成的吗？
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We are trying to assess how well the system works .
我们正设法评估这个系统运行得是否顺畅。
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It 's very difficult to find work at the moment .
目前很难找到工作。
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This gives the design team a sound basis for their work .
这为设计组开展工作提供了坚实的基础。
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It is difficult to find work in the present economic climate .
在目前这种经济大气候下很难找到工作。
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What do you charge for work of this type ?
这种活你收多少钱？
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What do you charge for this type of work ?
这种活你收多少钱？
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It will take a while for the drug to work out of your system .
这药得需要一段时间才能排出你的体外。
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Do you have any previous experience of this type of work ?
你以前干过这种工作吗？
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We 're talking £ 500 for three hours ' work .
咱们讲的可是工作三个小时酬金500英镑。
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We began work on the project in May .
我们于五月份启动了这项工程。
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Work has begun on the construction of the new airport .
新机场的修建已经开工。
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She is best known for her work on the human brain .
她在对人脑的研究方面最为知名。
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The work will be carried out at a future date .
这项工作将来再做。
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Eventually , the new regulations will work to our advantage .
新规章制度最终将对我们有利。
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How will I ever get on top of all this work ?
我究竟怎样才处理得了这么多的工作？
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I didn 't get a red cent for all my work .
我做了那么多工作，可什么也没得到。
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The new legislation concerns health and safety at work .
这项新法规涉及工作场所的健康与安全。
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Call me if you have any problems regarding your work .
你如果还有什么工作方面的问题就给我打电话。
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Your work is just not good enough .
你的工作真是不够好。
主要指诗选，也可指故事、歌曲等的选集，其内容可以选自不同出处，但必须是同一主题。
the anthology of Beethoven symphonies/Li Bai's poems
贝多芬交响曲选集/李白诗选
I bought an anthology of English literature.
我买了一本英国文学选集。
指故事、诗歌等的集子或音乐专辑。
This is a collection of stories by woman writers.
这是一本女作家小说合集。
He has a new collection of Whitman's poetry.
他有一本新出版的惠特曼诗集。
指文字、绘画、音乐等的一系列作品，可以是选集或全集。
works of fiction/literature
小说/文学作品
I like this new edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
我喜欢这一新版的《莎士比亚全集》。
指使用机器设备大批量制造产品的工厂。
My mother used to work in a clothing factory.
我母亲以前在一家服装厂工作。
Mary works in a food factory.
玛丽在一家食品厂工作。
指生产棉纱、布匹、钢铁等材料的工厂。
There is a textile mill round the corner.
街角处有家纺织厂。
The paper mill is run by a young man.
这家造纸厂是由一个年轻人经营的。
指发电厂或进行工业生产的工厂。
There is a power plant nearby.
附近有一家发电厂。
This college has a large manufacturing plant.
这所大学有一个大型制造厂。
泛指工厂，常和其他词构成复合词。
There was an ironworks in the centre of the city before.
过去在市中心有一家炼铁厂。
The brick works that bought this batch of equipment is located near the railway station.
购进这批设备的砖厂位于火车站附近。
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