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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the Roads being reckoned as good as a harbour, the anchor-age good, and our ground- tackle very strong, our men were unconcerned, and not in the least apprehensive of danger, but spent the time in rest and mirth, after the manner of the sea; but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increased, and we had all hands at work to strike our topmasts, and make everything snug and close, that the ship might ride as easy as possible.
-- But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a- fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long- boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.
-- So Xury and I went to work with him; but Xury was much the better workman at it, for I knew very ill how to do it.
-- Immediately they fell to work with him; and though they had no knife, yet, with a sharpened piece of wood, they took off his skin as readily, and much more readily, than we could have done with a knife.
-- I had nobody to converse with, but now and then this neighbour; no work to be done, but by the la-bour of my hands; and I used to say, I lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So suddenly to be gone!It seems but the work of a moment.
-- "I am glad," said Lady Middleton to Lucy, "you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight.
-- Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a filigree basket for a spoilt child.
-- I should like the work exceedingly, if she would allow me a share in it."
-- The work of one moment was destroyed by the next.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His one observation to the point was concerning the chances of work in Chicago.
-- It had been tacitly understood beforehand that she was to get work and pay her board.
-- "Lots of girls work there.
-- She saw that she would first need to get work and establish herself on a paying basis before she could think of having company of any sort.
-- She had invited Carrie, not because she longed for her presence, but because the latter was dissatisfied at home, and could probably get work and pay her board here.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to work to saw a section of the big bot-tom log out big enough to let me through.
-- Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for the govment.
-- Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.
-- I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw, and went to work on that log again.
-- So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing that is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words!Well, well--to work once more."
-- "It can easily be seen I only imagined I heard the tiny voice!Well, well--to work once more!"
-- After choosing the name for his Marionette, Geppetto set seriously to work to make the hair, the forehead, the eyes.
-- He said no more, but taking his tools and two pieces of wood, he set to work diligently.
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