The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Because if they work any harder than that, then the other person is just going to slack off instead.

因为我们知道如果自己超额完成工作,其他人就可以少做点工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's also another way that people show off their work.

这也是人们炫耀作品的另一种途径。

三角地电影节 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To earn the one hundred thirty thousand dollars that Clarence Berry took off the ship, that man would have had to work for two hundred fifty years!

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Yeats is throwing off his early work as if throwing off a kind of costume.

叶芝抛弃了他的早期作品,就像抛弃一件外套一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Listen to the dogs cry. How they hated the work. They were off.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Whoever does work on it, that person is cut off from among his kin.

不管谁在这一天工作，这个人要和他的家族断绝关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Hailey's hard work as a musician has paid off academically as well.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Several times at public executions in 1698 and 1699, he brushed the executioner away, grabbed the axe and did the dirty work himself, chopping off a head or two.

在1698年和1699年的数次公开行刑里,他轰走了刽子手,抄起斧子亲自动手,手刃了几个囚犯

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

His years of hard work paid off.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Enzymes work best, enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions and our bodies operate by elaborate networks of chemical reactions, When we're off from that temperature then they don't work properly.

举酶这个例子再好不过,酶是一种具有催化作用的蛋白质,人体依靠精密复杂的化学反应网络来运转,如果我们体温与之相差较大,这些酶就不能正常工作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Iowa National Guard veteran Kyle Hoefling took off from work to join a rally the night before Mr.Obama's visit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

When do you get off work?

你什么时候下班？

When 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"This phone will work only for 11 days, when we are near the Earth, but it will be switched off later."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Apolo Anton Ohno, who still sports his trademark "soul-patch" [of facial hair just above his chin, says his hard work has paid off.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Vanani says that nearly 50 percent of the work force has been laid off.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

I just got off work. It's nice.

VOA: standard.other

One can see businessmen and women running down the escalators, most likely late for work, couples holding hands, others seemingly asleep as they wait to get off, listening to the music that blares from the loudspeakers overhead.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10