work是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 工作(量) ； 作品； [pl.，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
-- 'No more work to-night.
-- Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking.
-- 'We'd a deal of work to finish up last night,' replied the girl,' and had to clear away this morning, mother.'
-- Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed to-morrow morning for a good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
-- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
-- Yet, work of that kind was being done in the gar-ret; for, with his back towards the door, and his face towards the window where the keeper of the wine-shop stood look-ing at him, a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.
-- Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.
-- Now that he had no work to hold, he laid the knuck-les of the right hand in the hollow of the left, and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right, and then passed a hand across his bearded chin, and so on in regular changes, without a moment's intermission.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he caused large sums of Andersen's Fairy Talesmoney to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- However, they put all that was given them into their knapsacks; and continued to work with as much ap-parent diligence as before at their empty looms.
-- 'Is not the work absolutely magnificent?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
-- His work is with the mind..." "Maybe.
-- You despise public official work because you want the reality to be invariably corresponding all the while with the aim--and that's not how it is.
-- "It's not dull if one has work to do; besides, one's not dull by oneself," Levin replied abruptly.
-- She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely to be in vain, for he thought that the prize offered would greatly stimulate their zeal and activity.
-- The crew set to work in good earnest, inspired by the reward to be gained.
-- The work was at once commenced, and pursued with true American energy; nor did the rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution.
-- It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road, and that the government granted a subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.
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