works是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 工厂, 作品, 善行，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Selden found out that he has got a lad who works for him and brings him all he needs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How strange that criminals seldom swoon at such a mo-ment!On the contrary, the brain is especially active, and works incessantly probably hard, hard, hard like an en-gine at full pressure.
-- 'By their works ye shall know them' we are told.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He that fights fares no better than he that does not; coward and hero are held in equal honour, and death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle.
-- As the whole dark earth bows before some tempest on an autumn day when Jove rains his hardest to punish men for giving crooked judgement in their courts, and arriving justice therefrom without heed to the decrees of heaven all the rivers run full and the torrents tear many a new channel as they roar headlong from the mountains to the dark sea, and it fares ill with the works of men even such was the stress and strain of the Trojan horses in their flight.
-- Nine years did I stay with them, and many beautiful works in bronze, brooches, spiral armlets, cups, and chains, did I make for them in their cave, with the roaring waters of Oceanus foaming as they rushed ever past it; and no one knew, neither of gods nor men, save only Thetis and Eury-nome who took care of me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And in so doing, how know I that I don't guide an en-emy and a spy of Montcalm, to the works of the army?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer of whose works I possess the only copy extant "it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
-- He mounts the Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process.
-- The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?
-- It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
-- By midnight the works were in full operation.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I was afterwards, on due consider-ation, made sensible of my condition, how I was cast on this dreadful place, out of the reach of human kind, out of all hope of relief, or prospect of redemption, as soon as I saw but a prospect of living and that I should not starve and per-ish for hunger, all the sense of my affliction wore off; and Ibegan to be very easy, applied myself to the works proper for my preservation and supply, and was far enough from being afflicted at my condition, as a judgment from heav-en, or as the hand of God against me: these were thoughts which very seldom entered my head.
-- Thus, and in this disposition of mind, I began my third year; and though I have not given the reader the trouble of so particular an account of my works this year as the first, yet in general it may be observed that I was very seldom idle, but having regularly divided my time according to the sev-eral daily employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the reading the Scriptures, which I constantly set apart some time for thrice every day; second-ly, the going abroad with my gun for food, which generally took me up three hours in every morning, when it did not rain; thirdly, the ordering, cutting, preserving, and cook-ing what I had killed or caught for my supply; these took up great part of the day.
-- I was indeed terribly surprised at the sight, and stopped short within my grove, not daring to go out, lest I might be surprised; and yet I had no more peace within, from the apprehensions I had that if these savages, in rambling over the island, should find my corn standing or cut, or any of my works or improvements, they would immediately con-clude that there were people in the place, and would then never rest till they had found me out.
-- This frequently gave me occasion to observe, and that with wonder, that however it had pleased God in His provi-dence, and in the government of the works of His hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers, the same reason, the same affec-tions, the same sentiments of kindness and obligation, the same passions and resentments of wrongs, the same sense of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of do-ing good and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to offer them occasions of exerting these, they are as ready, nay, more ready, to apply them to the right uses for which they were bestowed than we are.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is an excellent housemaid, and works very well at her needle.
-- But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He works way down at the stock-yards," explained Minnie, "so he's got to get up at half-past five."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was pretty ornery preaching all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good ser- mon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.
-- 'Mary Jane's nineteen, Susan's fifteen, and Joanna's about fourteen that's the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip.'
-- Well, by and by the king he gets up and comes for- ward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its being a sore trial for him and his poor brother to lose the diseased, and to miss seeing diseased alive after the long journey of four thousand mile, but it's a trial that's sweetened and sanctified to us by this dear sym- pathy and these holy tears, and so he thanks them out of his heart and out of his brother's heart, because out of their mouths they can't, words being too weak and cold, and all that kind of rot and slush, till it was just sicken-ing; and then he blubbers out a pious goody- goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to cry- ing fit to bust.
-- Now I'll rest my works a little, and you start up yourn; just tell me EVERY-THING tell me all about 'm all every one of 'm; and how they are, and what they're doing, and what they told you to tell me; and every last thing you can think of.'
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