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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now,' said the grinder, as he gave him a common rough stone that lay by his side, 'this is a most capital stone; do but work it well enough, and you can make an old nail cut with it.'
-- Now, as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, and scolded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge.
-- 'I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,' said she; 'pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of read-ers.
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being al-ready spent with labour while we were in the ship.
-- Five hundred carpenters and engineers were im-mediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had.
-- His answer, as I could comprehend it, was, 'that this must be a work of time, not to be thought on without the advice of his council, and that first I must lumos kelmin pesso desmar lon emposo;' that is, swear a peace with him and his kingdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained.
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- If you like, Thethilia, to be prentitht, you know the natur of the work and you know your companionth.
-- As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.
-- Set anywhere, side by side, the work of God and the work of man; and the former, even though it be a troop of Hands of very small account, will gain in dignity from the comparison.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- I was very much of the same opinion, but not liking to say so, sent her away, and began some of my usual work of classification.
-- My uncle had been hard at work all the afternoon.
-- He was one of those who never seemed to expect anything from anybody, who liked to work when he thought proper, and whose philosophy nothing could astonish or trouble.
-- When she can find no more the male bird sets to work to see what he can do.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The work was her one refuge, her sanctu-ary.
-- They don't like these new fangled mines, such a depth, and all machin-ery to work them.
-- Ah, my boy!to keep up the level of the race, and to have work waiting for any man who cares to work! ' The old man was really moved.
-- It was work they both liked.
-- And I'm not in a good enough temper to work for myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man sat down again upon the pavement with the negligent ease of one who was thoroughly accustomed to pavements; and placing three hunks of coarse bread before himself, and falling to upon a fourth, began contentedly to work his way through them as if to clear them off were a sort of game.
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