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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself boots in hand, and hat on under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots.
-- And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who by his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and the ship's work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of command.
-- He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.
-- When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what.
-- As many know, he wrote the history of his own times, a work every way of uncommon value.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sowerberry was closeted with the board for five minutes; and it was arranged that Oliver should go to him that evening 'upon liking'--a phrase which means, in the case of a parish apprentice, that if the master find, upon a short trial, that he can get enough work out of a boy without putting too much food into him, he shall have him for a term of years, to do what he likes with.
-- 'What mill!Why, the mill--the mill as takes up so little room that it'll work inside a Stone Jug; and always goes better when the wind's low with people, than when it's high; acos then they can't get workmen.
-- 'Well,' said the Jew, glancing slyly at Oliver, and addressing himself to the Dodger, 'I hope you've been at work this morning, my dears?'
-- At length, he began to languish for fresh air, and took many occasions of earnestly entreating the old gentleman to allow him to go out to work with his two companions.
-- There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It ought to be good,' he replied, 'it has been the work of many generations.'
-- Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.
-- The communication excited many professions of con-cern; and enough was said of wishing them to stay at least till the following day to work on Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred.
-- And, gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out: 'Dear madam, do not go.
-- To work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth ad-mired the command of countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned she encouraged it as much as possible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was then a mighty production of papers on the part of the cocked hats, and a calling over of names, and great work of signing, sealing, stamping, inking, and sanding, with exceedingly blurred, gritty, and undecipherable results.
-- He went up to the door, which had a projecting canopy in carved work of festooned jack-towels and children's heads with water on the brain, designed after a once-popular monumental pattern, and knocked.
-- Would always plead that she had this bit of work to begin first, or that bit of work to finish first; and would, of a certainty, scheme and plan not very cunningly, it would seem, for she deceived no one to dine alone.
-- Thus refreshed, he tucked up his shirt-sleeves and went to work again; and Mr Arthur, watching him as he set about it, plainly saw that his father's picture, or his father's grave, would be as communicative with him as this old man.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
-- I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it,' cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.
-- 'It's naughty to fret, but I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world.
-- 'I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster!It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and man-ners!I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.
-- He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.
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