Work

(noun.) activity directed toward making or doing something; 'she checked several points needing further work'.

(noun.) a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; 'it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works'; 'the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work'; 'he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey'; 'the work of an active imagination'; 'erosion is the work of wind or water over time'.

(noun.) (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force; 'work equals force times distance'.

(verb.) shape, form, or improve a material; 'work stone into tools'; 'process iron'; 'work the metal'.

(verb.) move in an agitated manner; 'His fingers worked with tension'.

(verb.) proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity; 'work your way through every problem or task'; 'She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived'; 'Start from the bottom and work towards the top'.

(verb.) cause to work; 'he is working his servants hard'.

(verb.) be employed; 'Is your husband working again?'; 'My wife never worked'; 'Do you want to work after the age of 60?'; 'She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money'; 'She works as a waitress to put herself through college'.

(verb.) exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; 'I will work hard to improve my grades'; 'she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor'.

(verb.) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; 'The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought'; 'How does your idea work in practice?'; 'This method doesn't work'; 'The breaks of my new car act quickly'; 'The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water'.

(verb.) operate in a certain place, area, or specialty; 'She works the night clubs'; 'The salesman works the Midwest'; 'This artist works mostly in acrylics'.

(verb.) arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; 'The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times'.

(verb.) gratify and charm, usually in order to influence; 'the political candidate worked the crowds'.

(verb.) provoke or excite; 'The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy'.

(verb.) behave in a certain way when handled; 'This dough does not work easily'; 'The soft metal works well'.

(verb.) operate in or through; 'Work the phones'.

(verb.) cause to operate or function; 'This pilot works the controls'; 'Can you work an electric drill?'.

(verb.) move into or onto; 'work the raisins into the dough'; 'the student worked a few jokes into his presentation'; 'work the body onto the flatbed truck'.

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• But thy rest agen to-morrow's work, my dear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There his work was received with applause. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He tried to look knowing over the Latin grammar when little Rawdon showed him what part of that work he was in. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• God will protect you; for you have undertaken His work, I answered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I counted a' th' clocks in the town striking afore I'd leave my work. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He took the clip out of the submachine gun and worked the lock back and forth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• That catastrophe and other events may have worked upon Mr. Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On the extreme right, however, his reserve brigade carried the enemy's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by infantry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• These works had a great vogue in France and Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this effect, I cannot find even one which seems to me of any weight. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I was informed he wrote several small occasional works, but only one of them was printed, which I remember to have seen several years since. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• All my works! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I thought of myself, lying here, when that first great change was being wrought at home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He never looked at her; so she might study him unobserved, and note the changes which even this short time had wrought in him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But you may easily carry the help too far, he said, and get over-wrought yourself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Many coal mines in Scotland are wrought in this manner, and can be wrought in no other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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