work /wɜːk/ CET4 TEM4 ( working, worked, works )

• 1. 

  V-I People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do. 工作

  例：

  I started working in a recording studio.

  我开始在一个录音棚里工作。

  例：

  He worked as a teacher for 50 years.

  他从事教师工作50年了。

  例：

  I want to work, I don't want to be on welfare.

  我想工作，我不想依靠救济。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job. 工作

  例：

  I can't talk to you right now – I'm working.

  我这会儿不能和你说话–我正在工作。

  例：

  He was working at his desk.

  他正在伏案工作。

  例：

  They work forty hours a week.

  他们一周工作40个小时。

• 3. 

  V-I When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something. 努力从事

  例：

  Linda spends all her time working on the garden.

  琳达用所有的时间在那座花园里劳作。

  例：

  The government expressed hope that all the sides will work toward a political solution.

  该政府希望所有各方致力于一个政治解决方案。

• 4. 

  V-I If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it. 研究

  例：

  Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type.

  博内特教授多年来一直在研究这类分子。

• 5. 

  V-I If you work with a person or a group of people, you spend time and effort trying to help them in some way. 帮助

  例：

  She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.

  她用一段时间帮助即将死于癌症的人们。

• 6. 

  V-I If a machine or piece of equipment works, it operates and performs a particular function. (机器或设备) 运转

  例：

  The pump doesn't work and we have no running water.

  这个水泵不运转了，我们没有自来水。

• 7. 

  V-I If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory. (想法、系统或方法) 奏效

  例：

  95 percent of these diets do not work.

  这些节食方法中的95%都不奏效。

• 8. 

  V-I If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect. (药物) 起作用

  例：

  I wake up at 6 a.m. as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours.

  我早上6点醒来，因为这种安眠药作用不会超过9个小时。

• 9. 

  V-I If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem. (脑子或思想) 运转

  例：

  My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening.

  我的脑子疯狂地运转着, 将那天晚上发生的事情过了一遍。

• 10. 

  V-I 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. 基于 (一个假设) 而行动

  例：

  We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion.

  我们正依据它是一起燃气爆炸的假设而行动。

• 11. 

  V-I If you work on someone, you persuade or attempt to persuade or influence them. 影响; 劝说(某人)

• 12. 

  V-T If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job. 使干活

  例：

  They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this.

  他们让我干得太苦。我干这个年纪太大了。

• 13. 

  V-T When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops. 开垦

  例：

  Farmers worked the fertile valleys.

  农民们开垦了这个肥沃的山谷。

• 14. 

  V-T If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it. 操作 (机器或设备)

  例：

  Many adults still depend on their children to work the video.

  许多成年人仍依靠他们的孩子来操作录像机。

• 15. 

  V-I If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition. 逐渐变成

  例：

  It's important to put a lock washer on that last nut, or it can work loose.

  重要的是要在最后一个螺母上安装一个防松垫圈，否则它会逐渐变松。

• 16. 

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• 17. 

  PHRASE If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work. 逐渐移动到某处

  例：

  Rescuers were still working their way toward the trapped men.

  救援人员仍在慢慢地挪近那些被困人员。