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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on his table.
-- It was two o'clock before Dr. Kemp had finished his work for the night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So I waited passively upon fate; and the work of transferring Montgom-ery's possessions to the launch went on as if I did not exist.
-- Presently that work was finished, and then came a strug-gle.
-- Montgomery, having unshipped the rudder, landed likewise, and all set to work at unloading.
-- I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white-haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits.
-- 'I'm itching to get to work again with this new stuff,' said the white-haired man, noddding towards the enclo- sure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To begin a night's work with that noise!Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?'
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.
-- Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the mon-keys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends' tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.
-- Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera's deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- The news had been brought, toward the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the 'holy lake,' for a speedy and powerful reinforcement.
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
-- 'Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter be-tween us, and friends spare their words!'
-- cried Hawkeye, who just then had despatched the enemy; 'to cover, for your lives!the work is but half ended!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character.
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- 芒聭麓"A Modern Artist: Notes on the Work of Charles Strickland," by Edward Leggatt, A.R.H.A.
-- I have read this work with a good deal of amusement, and upon this I congratulate myself, since it is colourless and dull.
-- And presently Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz produced the work which finally set at rest the misgivings of all lovers of art.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the work of a few minutes only, and the sailor rejoined his companions.
-- But on beholding the convulsed masses heaped up on the left, no geologist would have hesitated to give them a volcanic origin, for they were unquestionably the work of subterranean convulsions.
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