B：What do you do?
      你是做什么的？

A：I work full-time at the (hospital/ library/ supemp3arket).
      我在（医院/图书馆/超市）做全职。

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A：The project was so (difficult/ time-consuming/ tedious).
      这个项目很（难/花时间/枯燥乏味）。

B：You shouldn’t work so hard.
      你不要这么拼命工作。

A：Go (get some work done/ finish you work/ do some work).
      去（找点事情做/完成你的工作/做点什么事情）。

B：All right.
      好的。

1. 工作;从业;就职
    People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.

    e.g. Weiner works for the US Department of Transport...
           韦纳就职于美国交通部。
    e.g. I started working in a recording studio...
           我开始在一个录音棚工作。

2. 工作;职业
    People who have work or who are in work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.

    e.g. Fewer and fewer people are in work...
           就业人数越来越少。
    e.g. I was out of work at the time...
           那时我失业了。

3. 工作;劳动;干活
    When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job.

    e.g. I can't talk to you right now—I'm working...
           这会儿我不能跟你说话——我在干活儿。
    e.g. He was working at his desk...
           他正在桌前用功。

4. 工作;活儿;活计
    Your work consists of the things you are paid or required to do in your job.

    e.g. We're supposed to be running a business here. I've got work to do...
           我们在这里应该是要经营公司。我有一堆的事情要做。
    e.g. I used to take work home, but I don't do it any more...
           我过去常把活儿带回家干，不过我如今再也不这么做了。

5. 努力干;用功
    When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something.

    e.g. Linda spends all her time working on the garden...
           琳达把所有时间都花在打理花园上。
    e.g. While I was working on my letter the telephone rang...
           我正在写信，电话铃响了。

6. 工作单位;工作地点
    Work is the place where you do your job.

    e.g. Many people travel to work by car...
           很多人开车去上班。
    e.g. She told her friends at work that she was trying to lose weight.
           她跟单位的朋友说她在努力减肥。

7. 工作成果
    Work is something which you produce as a result of an activity or as a result of doing your job.

    e.g. It can help to have an impartial third party look over your work...
           让客观公正的第三方看一下你的成果会有助益。
    e.g. Tidiness in the workshop is really essential for producing good work...
           工作间干净整洁对于生产出好的产品非常重要。

8. (艺术家、作家、作曲家等的)作品；著作
    A work is something such as a painting, book, or piece of music produced by an artist, writer, or composer.

    e.g. In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work...
           我认为这是伦勃朗最伟大的作品。
    e.g. Under his arm, there was a book which looked like the complete works of Shakespeare...
           他胳膊底下夹着一本书，看上去就像是夹了《莎士比亚全集》。

9. 研究；对…作调查
    If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it.

    e.g. Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type.
           邦尼特教授多年来一直在从事这种分子的研究工作。

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

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      e.g. She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer...
             她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。
      e.g. He knew then that he wanted to work among the poor.
             他那时明白了自己想帮助穷人。

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

      e.g. The pump doesn't work and we have no running water...
             水泵坏了，我们没有自来水了。
      e.g. Is the telephone working today?...
             电话今天能用吗？

12. 奏效;成功
      If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory.

      e.g. 95 per cent of these diets do not work...
             这些节食方法95%都不起作用。
      e.g. If lust is all there is to hold you together, the relationship will never work...
             如果肉欲是你们在一起的唯一理由，这种关系是不会持久的。

13. (药物)起作用，产生疗效
      If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect.

      e.g. I wake at 6 am as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours...
             安眠药的药效不会超过9个小时，所以我清晨6点就醒了。
      e.g. The drug works by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain.
             这种药物通过提高大脑中血清素的含量来产生疗效。

14. 产生(有利或不利的)影响
      If something works in your favour, it helps you in some way. If something works to your disadvantage, it causes problems for you in some way.

      e.g. One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image...
             据认为，一个帮上了他的因素就是他的工人阶级形象。
      e.g. This obviously works against the interests of the child.
             这显然会对孩子不利。

15. 对…产生(神奇的影响);使…深受（魅力感染）
      If something or someone works their magic or works their charms on a person, they have a powerful positive effect on them.

      e.g. Nevertheless, she is always optimistic about the possibilities and can work her charm on the disenchanted...
             虽然如此，她总是乐观地抱持希望，并能深深地感染那些心灰意冷的人。
      e.g. Our spirits rallied as the bitter-sweet alcohol worked its magic.
             苦中带甜的酒发挥了奇效，我们的精神随之振奋起来。

16. (脑筋)转动，开动
      If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem.

      e.g. My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening.
             我的大脑疯狂地运转，把那晚发生的事情飞快地一幕幕重演。

17. 以(某种假定或思想)为基础(或前提)
      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.

      e.g. We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion.
             我们假设这是一场燃气爆炸事故。

18. 在(某地或某类场所)工作;在…奔波
      If you work a particular area or type of place, you travel around that area or work in those places as part of your job, for example trying to sell something there.

      e.g. Brand has been working the clubs and the pubs since 1986, developing her comedy act...
             布兰德自1986年以来一直在俱乐部和酒吧表演，提高她的喜剧演技。
      e.g. This is the seventh year that he has worked the streets of Manhattan.
             这是他在曼哈顿街头献艺的第7个年头。

19. 让…干活；让…工作
      If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job.

      e.g. They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this...
             他们把我用得太狠了，我老了，干不了这种活儿啦。
      e.g. They didn't take my father away, but kept him in the village and worked him to death.
             他们没有把我爸爸带走，而是一直让他在村里干活，把他活活累死了。

20. (常指政客或艺人)博得，赢得(众人的支持或欢心)
      If someone, often a politician or entertainer, works a crowd, they create a good relationship with the people in the crowd and get their support or interest.

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      e.g. The Prime Minister has an ability to work a crowd — some might even suggest it is a kind of charm...
             首相有种感召人群的本事——有些人甚至认为这是一种魅力。
      e.g. He worked the room like a politician, gripping hands, and slapping backs.
             他又是握手，又是拍背，像个政客一样把一屋子的人都笼络了一番。

21. 种，耕种(地)
      When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops.

      e.g. Farmers worked the fertile valleys.
             农民们在肥沃的山谷里耕种。

22. 开采(矿)
      When a mine is worked, minerals such as coal or gold are removed from it.

      e.g. The mines had first been worked in 1849, when gold was discovered in California...
             1849年加利福尼亚发现金矿时，这些矿第一次被开采。
      e.g. Only an agreed number of men was allowed to work any given seam at any given time.
             只有少数得到批准的人可以在特定时间开采特定的矿层。

23. 使用，操纵(机器或设备)
      If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it.

      e.g. Many adults still depend on their children to work the video.
             很多成年人仍然要靠孩子来操作录像机。

24. 慢慢变成;逐渐变得
      If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition.

      e.g. A screw had worked loose from my glasses.
             我眼镜上有一个螺丝松了。

25. 按，压，揉(面团、黏土等)
      If you work a substance such as dough or clay, you keep pressing it to make it have a particular texture.

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      e.g. Work the dough with the palm of your hand until it is very smooth...
             用手掌将面团揉至光滑为止。
      e.g. Remove rind from the cheese and work it to a firm paste, with a fork.
             将奶酪的外皮去掉，用叉子将其压成硬硬的膏状。

26. 加工;处理
      If you work a material such as metal, leather, or stone, you cut, sew, or shape it in order to make something or to create a design.

      e.g. ...the machines needed to extract and work the raw stone.
             开采加工原石的机器
      e.g. ...a long, cool tunnel of worked stone.
             一条跨度长且阴凉的石凿隧道

27. 使用，采用(某种材料或物质)
      If you work with a particular substance or material, you use it in order to make something or to create a design.

      e.g. He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay.
             他学习雕塑是因为他喜欢玩黏土。

28. (使)(身体某部分)活动
      If you work a part of your body, or if it works, you move it.

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      e.g. Each position will work the muscles in a different way...
             每种姿势都会以不同方式活动肌肉。
      e.g. Her mouth was working in her sleep.
             她睡着的时候嘴巴还在动。

29. 工厂
      A works is a place where something is manufactured or where an industrial process is carried out. Works is used to refer to one or to more than one of these places.

      e.g. The steel works could be seen for miles.
             这个钢厂几英里外都能看见。
      e.g. ...a recycling works.
             回收工厂

30. 土木工程;建筑工程
      Works are activities such as digging the ground or building on a large scale.

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      e.g. ...six years of disruptive building works, road construction and urban development.
             6年间进行的破坏性的建筑工程、道路修筑和城市扩建

31. (某种类型的)全部物件，全套物品
      You can say the works after listing things such as someone's possessions or requirements, to emphasize that they possess or require everything you can think of in a particular category.

      e.g. Amazing place he's got there—squash courts, swimming pool, jacuzzi, the works.
             他的那个地方真是太棒了——壁球场、游泳池、按摩浴池，一应俱全。

32. see also: working

33. 干活儿;做工作;忙着做事
      If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.

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      e.g. The salvage teams are already hard at work trying to deal with the spilled oil...
             救援队已经在紧张地设法处理溢出的石油。
      e.g. He is currently at work on a novel...
             他这会儿正忙着写一篇小说。

34. 起作用;发挥效用
      If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect.

      e.g. The report suggested that the same trend was at work in politics...
             这份报告表明，同一趋势也在影响着政治。
      e.g. It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.
             重要的是，要理解在我们自身行动背后起作用的强大的经济和社会力量。

35. (做…)有很大困难，困难重重
      If you say that you will have your work cut out to do something, you mean that it will be a very difficult task.

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      e.g. The new administration has its work cut out for it. Creating jobs in this kind of environment is not going to be easy...
             新一届政府面临重重困难。在这种环境下创造就业机会绝非易事。
      e.g. He will have his work cut out to get into the team.
             他要进入该队困难重重。

36. 已列入计划;已开始
      If something is in the works, it has already been planned or begun.

      e.g. He said there were dozens of economic plans in the works...
             他说有几十项经济计划已经开始实施。
      e.g. Nobody should be surprised by this. It's been in the works for some time.
             不应该有人对此感到惊奇，这事已经张罗了有一阵子了。

37. （费力或轻而易举地）做，完成
      You can use work to talk about how easily or quickly a particular task is done. For example, if a person or thing makes short work of doing something or makes light work of it, they do it quickly and easily.

      e.g. An aerosol spray will make short work of painting awkward objects...
             用喷罐来喷涂，不好对付的物品也能轻松搞定。
      e.g. This horse made light work of the cross-country course...
             这匹马轻松地跑完了越野赛程。

38. 讨厌鬼;恶棍
      If you describe someone as a nasty piece of work, you think they are very unpleasant or cruel.

      e.g. Underneath I think he's actually a rather nasty piece of work.
             内心里我觉得他是个非常讨厌的家伙。

39. 让…工作;派给…任务
      If you put someone to work or set them to work, you give them a job or task to do.

      e.g. By stimulating the economy, we're going to put people to work...
             我们将通过刺激经济让人们实现就业。
      e.g. Instead of sending them to prison, we have set them to work helping the lemon growers.
             我们没有把他们送进监狱，而是让他们帮种柠檬的果农干活儿。

40. 开始做;着手处理
      If you get to work ,go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.

      e.g. He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit...
             他承诺着手解决国家庞大的财政赤字问题。
      e.g. He returned to America where he set to work on a new novel.
             他返回美国，开始写一部新小说。

41. 艰难地移动；缓慢地取得进展
      If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.

      e.g. Rescuers were still working their way towards the trapped men...
             营救人员仍在艰难地向被困者靠拢。
      e.g. Many personnel managers started as secretaries or personnel assistants and worked their way up.
             很多人事经理最初是从秘书或人事助理做起，然后慢慢升上去的。

42. 干得不错;干得漂亮
      You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.

      e.g. Nice work, Matthew. I knew you could do it.
             干得好，马修。我知道你能行。

43. to throw a spanner in the works -> see spanner

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