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| 1 | U activity that involves physical or mental effort 工作；劳动 |
| Iknow you’ ve got a lot of work to do. 我知道你有很多工作要做。 |
| Thank you for all your hard work. 谢谢你所有的辛勤劳动。 |
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| 2 | U a job that someone is paid to do 职业；差事 |
| Istarted work when I was sixteen. 我16岁就参加工作了。 |
| It’ s not easy to find work (=get a job) . 找工作不容易。 |
| | 2a | the things that you do as part of your job 工作；活儿 | | Her work will include planting trees and caring for animals. 她的工作包括种树和照料动物。 | | Employees may take work home if they wish. 雇员如果愿意可以把工作带回家。 | |
| | 2b | the time that someone spends doing their job 工作时间 | | We rehearse for a few hours every day after work. 我们每天下班后排练几个小时。 | |
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| 3 | U a place where someone goes to do their job 工作地点；工作场所；办公处 |
| Iwalk to work and take the bus home. 我步行去上班，乘公共汽车回家。 |
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| 4 | U something that someone makes or does in their job 产品；工作成果 |
| Carol and her subcommittee did some nice work on the document. 卡罗尔和她的分支委员会出色地完成了这份文件。 |
| piece of work It’ s not the best piece of work you’ ve ever done. 这不是你最出色的作品。 |
| | 4a | C/U something produced by a writer , painter , musician , or other artist （作家、画家、音乐家等的）作品，著作 | | Our final-year students invite you to an exhibition of their work. 我们的毕业班学生邀请你去参观他们的作品展览。 | | +of This is a minor but moving work of literature. 这是一部名气不大但很感人的文学作品。 | | astudy of the life and works of Baudelaire 波德莱尔的生平和作品研究 | |
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| 5 | U the repairing and building of something . You can also talk about works, and this has the same meaning （工程的）修建，施工 |
| The road has been closed for emergency repair works. 这条路因紧急抢修而被关闭。 |
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| - | all in a day’ s work spoken
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| used for saying that a particular situation or experience is normal for someone although most people would find it difficult or unusual |
| （对某人来说）习以为常的，不稀奇的 |
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| - | all work and no play
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| used about a situation in which someone spends a lot of time working and has no time for other activities |
| 只工作不玩耍 |
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| - | at work
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| 1 | at the place where you work 在工作地点；在工作场所；在办公室 | If he’ s not at home, he must still be at work. 如果他不在家，就一定还在办公室。 | |
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| 2 | in the process of doing or making something 在工作；在从事某种活动 | She’ s currently at work on a book about women in space. 她目前正在写一本关于进入太空的女性的书。 | | Ifound it fascinating to watch the staff at work. 我发现看员工们干活儿很有趣。 | |
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| 3 | having a particular effect or influence 在产生影响；在起作用 | You don’ t know what forces are at work behind the scenes. 你不知道幕后是什么势力在起作用。 | |
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| - | get/go/set to work (on sth)
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| to start doing something |
| 着手做（某事） |
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| Let’ s get to work on this right now. 我们马上开始做吧。 |
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| - | have your work cut out (for you)
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| to have a difficult job to do |
| 面临艰巨的任务 |
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| We’ ll have our work cut out for us if we want to maintain sales at this level. 如果想保持这个销售水平，我们将面临着艰巨的任务。 |
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| - | in work
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| someone who is in work has a job |
| 有职业；有工作 |
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| - | in the works AMERICAN
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| being planned or being dealt with |
| 在筹备中；在处理中 |
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| - | make short/light/quick work of sb
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| to defeat an opponent quickly and easily |
| 轻而易举地击败某人 |
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| - | make short/light/quick work of sth
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| to deal with something quickly and easily |
| 轻而易举地处理好某事 |
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| - | out of work
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| unemployed |
| 失业 |
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| Some of us have been out of work for years. 我们中有些人已经失业好几年了。 |
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| - | the (whole) works informal
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| everything |
| 全部的一切；所有的事物 |
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| They ordered porridge, kippers, eggs, and bacon – the works. 他们要了粥、熏鲱鱼、鸡蛋和熏肉，什么都有。 |
| They’ ve got guns, grenades, rockets, the whole works. 他们有枪炮、手榴弹、火箭，什么都有。 |
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| See also | | - nasty 1 | | - dirty 1 | | - spanner | | - work of art | |
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