•I've got so much work to do.我有一大堆工作要做。

•Carrying heavy loads around all day is hard work.整天来回运送重物是件苦事。

•What time do you start/finish work?你甚么时间开始／完成工作?

•Adrian does most of the work around the house.阿德里安做大部分的家务。

•What sort of work are you experienced in?你对哪一种工作有经验？

•She tends to wear quite smart clothes for work.她总是穿得漂漂亮亮的去上班。

•Roger's work involves a lot of travelling.罗杰的工作需要经常出差。

•I'll have to take this work home with me and finish it there.我只好把这项工作带回家完成。

•All the furniture is the work of residents here.所有家俱都是这里居民的劳动成果。

•Do you have far to travel to work each day?你每天上班路远不远？

•Thousands of people are seriously injured at work every year.每年都有数以千计的人在工作中受重伤。

•When does she leave for work?她甚么时候去上班？

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•The museum has many works by Picasso as well as other modern painters.这家博物馆有很多毕加索的作品，也有不少其他现代画家的作品。

•the poetic works of Tagore泰戈尔的诗作

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•The bridegroom was wearing a morning suit, gloves, top hat - the works.新郎穿着晨礼服，戴着手套和高顶礼帽——全套的行头。

•mainly US And let me have two large pizzas with the works (= with all available types of food on top).给我来两份全套的薄饼吧。

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•a steel/car works钢铁／汽车厂

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•If you take the back off this clock, you can see its/the works.如果你把钟的后盖打开，就会看到那些活动部件。

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•The labourers were at work in the fields.劳动者们正在田间劳动。

•It seems as though forces of destruction are increasingly at work throughout society.破坏力量似乎正在给整个社会造成越来越坏的影响。

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•He was always in work, right from the day he left school.他从离开学校的那一天起，就一直在工作。

•My father was out of work at the time, so we struggled, obviously.我爸爸当时失业了，所以很明显我们的日子很不好过。

•an out-of-work actor/manager失业的演员／经理

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•We'd better get to work on stacking this wood if we want to finish before it gets dark.如果我们想在天黑前完成的话，最好现在就开始堆这些木头。

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•She'll really have her work cut out to finish all those reports by the end of the week.在周末之前完成所有这些报告对她来说真是个艰巨的任务。

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•Her idea for reorganizing the department will never work in practice.她关于部门重组的构想，实际上永远都不会实现。

•The tablets will start to work in a few minutes.几分钟后药片就会开始起作用。

•Some people think I'm weird doing meditation, but it works for me and that's all that matters.有些人认为我进行冥想有点古怪，但这对我有用，这才是最重要的。

•Arguably, the monarchy worked well for many centuries.有据可考，君主政体成功施行了很多个世纪。

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•He works at the local hospital.他在当地的医院工作。

•She worked as a cleaner at the hospital.她在医院里当清洁工人。

•Mike works for a computer company.麦克在一家电脑公司工作。

•It's not unusual for a junior doctor to work a seventy or sometimes an eighty hour week.对于一名初级医生来说，每周工作70甚或80小时是很平常的。

•Have you any experience of working with children who have learning difficulties?你有没有辅导过学习吃力的孩子？

•The instructors worked us very hard on the survival course.生存训练课上，老师把我们累坏了。

•Our telephone isn't working.我们的电话坏了。

•You need a team of about twelve people to work a furnace this size.这样大小的熔炉需要大约12个人来维持其运行。

•The pump works off/on (= uses) wind power.这个泵利用风力。

•The pump is worked by (= uses to operate) wind power.这个泵靠风力运作。

•I can't get the radio to work.我怎么也弄不好这台收音机。

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•He started as a technician and worked his way up through the company to become managing director.他从一名技术员做起，一步一步晋升为公司的总经理。

•Eventually she worked her way through (= read) the huge amount of technical papers.最后她终于读完了一大堆技术论文。

•[R] Vibration tends to make nuts and screws work them selves loose.震动会使螺母和螺丝自动松开。

•The screws had worked loose over time.随着时间过去，螺丝已经松了。

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•I don't know how she worked it , but she retired at fifty on a full salary.我不知道她是如何做到在50岁领全薪退休的。

•Can we work things (out) so that there's always someone here to answer the telephone during office hours?我们能否安排一下，以便在工作时间这里总是有人接电话？

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•Working iron requires higher temperatures than bronze.加工铁比加工青铜需要更高温度。

•Gently work the butter into the flour until there are no lumps left.轻轻地把奶油揉到面粉里，直到没有硬块为止。

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•This new drill works a treat on hard metals.这台新钻机在硬金属上钻起孔来很不错。

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•Flattery usually works like a charm with him.拍他的马屁通常十分有效。

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•A little bit of oil works wonders on squeaky hinges.给嘎吱嘎吱响的铰链上点油就能马上解决问题。