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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Verne has done a vast and useful work in stimulating the interest not only of Frenchmen but of all civilised nations, with regard to the lesser known regions of our globe.
-- However, the only way to know was to examine the bottle, and Glenarvan set to work without further delay, so carefully and minutely, that he might have been taken for a coroner making an inquest.
-- "To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study, wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps of great travelers."
-- That is vexing, too, for you would find it dull work waiting for a vessel in the Peak of Teneriffe."
-- They were in a very damaged condition, but among them he raked out a few Spanish volumes, and determined forthwith to set to work to master the language of Cervantes, as no one on board understood it, and it would be helpful in their search along the Chilian coast.
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：
-- 'To the man of precisely scientific mind the work of Mon-sieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly.'
-- It is well that this is so, for it is obvious-ly of the utmost importance that Sir Charles's heir should settle at the Hall and continue the good work which has been so sadly interrupted.
-- All the good work which has been done by Sir Charles will crash to the ground if there is no tenant of the Hall.
-- But surely, if your supernatural theory be cor-rect, it could work the young man evil in London as easily as in Devonshire.
-- I shall probably find some work awaiting me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh no it's the work of an instant.
-- However, it's half-past twelve,' he concluded, looking at his watch; 'so to business, prince, for I must be setting to work and shall not see you again today.
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
-- I don't work too much, either.
-- Marie was her daugh-ter, a girl of twenty, weak and thin and consumptive; but still she did heavy work at the houses around, day by day.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- This was the work of Vulcan, who gave it to Jove the son of Saturn.
-- Our wives and little ones at home look anxiously for our coming, but the work that we came hither to do has not been done.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned, and they had tasted the in-ward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- 'King Agamemnon,' said he, 'let us not stay talking here, nor be slack in the work that heaven has put into our hands.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Henfrey not only took off the hands of the clock, and the face, but extracted the works; and he tried to work in as slow and quiet and unassuming a manner as possible.
-- Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.
-- He went back to his study, and this time attacked his work resolutely.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep, while Geppetto stuck on the two feet with a bit of glue melted in an eggshell, doing his work so well that the joint could hardly be seen.
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