【work音标】 英[wɜ:k] 美[wɜ:rk]
【单词释义】 work是什么意思：
vt.&vi.使工作；使运作；操作；使产生效果；起作用
n.[U]工作，操作；行为，事业；[C]工厂；艺术作品；著作
vt.使工作；操作；经营；使缓慢前进
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] works [第三人称单数] works
[单词现在分词] working
[单词过去式] worked
[单词过去分词] worked
【关联词/派生词】
worker n.工人；劳动者
workman n.工匠；技工；男工
workshop n.车间；工场，作坊；研究会；讲习班
workpiece n.工件；轧件；工作部件
workaholic n.工作狂；专心工作的人；醉心于工作的人 adj.工作狂的；醉心于工作的
workload n.工作量；工作负荷；工作负担
workday n.日常的，工作日的；平凡的 adj. 日常的，工作日的；平凡的
workmanship n. [U]技艺，工艺；手艺；技巧
workable adj. 切实可行的；可经营的；能工作的
workout n. 锻炼，训练
【work形近词/近似词】
pork n.[U]猪肉
fork n.叉；餐叉；岔口
cork n.软木；瓶塞，软木塞 vt.用塞子盖住；用软木塞塞住；抑制，压制（感情）
【常用短语】
at work 在工作；上班
in work adv. 有工作；在完成之中
work on 影响，对…起作用；继续工作；从事于…
work out 解决；算出；实现；制定出；消耗完；弄懂
【近义词解析】
◇ 工作，劳动
job (n. 工作，活儿)：多用于口语，侧重指受雇用的、以谋生为目的的工作。
labour (美亦作labor n. 劳动，工作)：尤指艰苦的体力劳动。
work (n. 工作，劳动)：最普通用词，含义广泛，既可指体力劳动也可指脑力劳动，通常都以挣钱为目的，有时也指机器干的工作。
【单词例句】
◇ Everyday, while the lazy, ugly stepsisters played they teased Cinderella. Cinderella always stayed up late cleaning and washing the laundry. "Cinderella! Clean my shoes." Cinderella always wore tattered clothes and worked all day doing housework.
每一天，懒惰的、丑陋的姐妹都会嘲笑灰姑娘。灰姑娘每天洗衣服打扫屋子到很晚。“灰姑娘!擦擦我的鞋。”灰姑娘总是穿着破烂的衣服，整天马不停蹄地做家务。
---- Cinderella
◇ Now she stayed at home with Benjamin and helped him with the work. The eleven went into the woods and captured wild game, deer, birds, and doves, so they would have something to eat. Their sister and Benjamin prepared it all.
从此，她便和便雅明呆在家里，帮他做家务。十一个哥哥去森林里打猎，抓来鹿、斑鸠和别的鸟，让小妹妹和便雅明仔细烧好了填肚子。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ "So why do you want to work here?"Eventually this question comes up in every interview. Over the course of the last 30 years, I have been and I continue to ask this question all the time.
“为什么你想来这里工作？”每次面试最终都会谈到这个问题。在过去30年里，我一直在询问求职者这个问题，也将继续问下去。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ I set about working in the current Patent Office after resigning from the court personnel.
从法院人事部辞职后，我开始在现在的专利局工作。
---- Strange Patent Applications
◇ After a series of initial experiments and corrections, the scientist’s hard work paid off when the twin clone turkeys were hatched with normal feather and claws.
在最初一系列的实验和修正之后，科学家的辛苦工作终于取得了成功，一对双生的克隆火鸡孵化出来，羽毛和爪子都很正常。
◇ Abstract art used to be controversial. On one hand, the artists stopped painting delicate figures but attempted to adopt special techniques to give people different visual impacts. On the other hand, their works, including sculptures carved out of marble or fragile clay, were all with a specific aim of showing feelings.
抽象艺术曾经颇受争议，一方面，抽象艺术家们不再画精致的画像，而是试图采用特别的技巧给人们以不同的视觉冲击；另一方面，他们的作品，包括用大理石和易碎的粘土雕刻出来的雕像，都以表达感情为其明确的目的。
---- Abstract Art
◇ Jane is a housewife, but delighted to work as an amateur journalist.
简是一名家庭主妇，但却非常乐意做一名业余记者。
◇ With a greedy motivation of making big money, I took up working as a business representative for the G.E Ecology Company, which produced goods by recycling useful materials from our dustbins.
带着想挣大钱的贪婪动机，我开始给一家叫G.E生态公司的企业当商务代表，这家公司通过回收我们垃圾箱里的有用材料生产商品。
---- An Air Crash
◇ This park is also famous for its wooden souvenirs. Whichever we bought in the central shop was made of wood, and wherever we went we could see minority carpenters working.
这个公园还因为它的木制纪念品而闻名，我们在中心商场购买的任何一件物品，都是用木头制作的，无论我们走到哪里，都可以看见少数名族的木匠们在忙碌。
---- A Unique Theme Park
◇ And he caused large sums of money to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
他付了许多现款给这两个骗子，叫他们马上开始工作。