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詞語信息
詞語：work[wə:k]
過去式：worked wrought
基本釋意
及物動詞 vt. & 不及物動詞 vi
⒈（使）工作
He's been working hard all day.
他辛勞地工作了一天。
⒉（使）運作，運轉
All the telephones don't work properly today.
今天所有電話機都出故障了。
I know how to work the machine.
我知道如何開動機器。
⒊（使）產生效果
If the scheme works,most of the peasants in this area will be rich.
如果計畫成功，這地區的大部分農民將富起來。
The newspapers say this new drug can work wonders.
報上說這種新藥有奇效。
名詞 n
⒈工作,勞動，作業
I have a lot of work to do.
我有許多工作要做。
⒉事業
She's devoted her life to good work.
她獻身於慈善事業。
⒊工作成果，產品
The villagers sell their work to tourists.
村民們將工藝品賣給旅遊者。
⒋著作，作品
She is reading a new work on acupuncture.
她正在看一本關於針灸療法的新書。
⒌工廠
The works have closed for the Christmas holiday.
聖誕假期，這些工廠歇工了。
⒍功
If you push hard against something and move it,you have done work.
如果你用力推一件東西，並且移動它，那你就做了功。
7.作為，行動結果
The damage is clearly the work of vandlas .
這毀損顯然是些恣意破壞公務的人所為。
及物動詞 vt
⒈做體力（或腦力）工作；勞動；幹活
⒉受僱於；從事…工作
⒊爭取；力爭；努力取得
⒋管理，經營（以獲利）
⒌開動，操作（機器、裝置等）；使運作
⒍奏效；產生預期的結果（或作用）
⒎使奏效；（由於努力）造成，產生
⒏（通過壓擠、拉長、錘擊等）使成形，使定形
⒐抽動；抽搐；顫動
⒑（逐漸地）移動（到某位置）；（逐步）變成（某狀態）
⒒用某種材料作畫（或編制、編織等）
12.使工作；(尤指)使賣力幹活
形容詞 adj
⒈工作用的，工作的
詞義辨析
work 與job
這兩個詞雖然都有“工作”的意思，但卻是近義詞。
work 作名詞，有體力或腦力勞動的意思（在這一意義上的同義詞有 labour,toil），又有作為職業概念的“工作”的意思（在這一意義上的同義詞有 employment,occupation,calling）。
I like garden too,but I don't like hard work.
我也喜歡花園，但是我不喜歡辛苦的勞動。
You have done a day's work in three hours.
你在三個小時內完成了一天的工作。
The children were at school,my husband was at work and the house was quiet.
孩子們上學去了，我丈夫去上班了，所以家裡很安靜。
Work on it had begun before my sister left.
這座房子的工程在我姐姐離開之前就已經開始了。
He is finding his new work far more exciting.
他正在發覺自己的新工作更加令人興奮。
He is now out of work.
他如今失業了。
job 作為“工作”解，其實有兩層含義：一個是“幹活”的“活”，一個作為職業的“事”。job作“幹活”的“活”解時的同義詞有 task,duty,assignment 等；job作為職業的“事”解時有如下的同義詞：position,place,situation,post 等。
When you start a job,you must stick to it.
一旦你開始了一件工作，他就得持之以恆。
It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
修理腳踏車就是他的活，而且常常是一天要乾14個小時。
I'm not going to wash the dishes,that's your job.
我不洗那些盤子，那是你的事。
He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London.
然後，他問我的兄弟可好，又問我是否喜歡在倫敦的新工作。
Alf's wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will,for Alf has just found another job.
阿爾夫的妻子從來沒有發現自己嫁給了一個清潔工，而且她再也不能發現自己丈夫是清潔工了，因為阿爾夫剛剛找到一種別的工作。
He is out of a job.
他如今失業了。
註：用英語表達“失業”，work和job這兩個詞都可以用，但是如果用job就必須用不定冠詞a，如果用work，則不用不定冠詞。
辨析work,labour,toil
這組名詞的一般含義為“工作”或“勞動”。
work 可以指體力勞動、腦力勞動或機器乾的活。從最廣義上講，它可以指大自然活動的任何結果。
I like gardens too,but I do not like hard work.
我也喜歡花園，但是我不喜歡艱苦的勞動。
But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
然而，作為一個老年人，他經歷過人生的歡樂和憂傷，而且完成了他份內要做的一切工作，怕死就有點兒卑鄙和不光彩了。
labour 指人類體力、腦力的勞動，但更強調吃力、費勁或努力。此外，labour創造人類賴以生存的物質和精神財富。
Labour is doing what we must.
勞動就是做必需做的事。
The majority of men there earn their living by manual labour.
那裡絕大多數人靠體力勞動謀生。
The computer is a typical labour-saving machine.
計算機是一種典型的節省勞動力的機器。
toil 強調長時間的而且令人感到非常疲勞的辛苦勞動，但未必一概指體力勞動。
The farmer's toil was rewarded with good crops.
那個農夫以辛勤的勞動換得了好收成。
詩歌
Work
Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down
To the ever-haunting importunity
Of business in the green fields, and the town--
To plough, loom, anvil, spade--and oh! most sad
To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?
Who but the Being unblest, alien from good,
Sabbathless Satan! he who his unglad
Task ever plies 'mid rotatory burnings,
That round and round incalculably reel--
For wrath divine hath made him like a wheel--
In that red realm from which are no returnings:
Where toiling, and turmoiling, ever and aye
He, and his thoughts, keep pensive working-day.
