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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is work for everybody."
-- In an hour the work was finished, and the raft moored to the bank, awaited the turning of the tide.
-- "Very likely," replied the seaman; "but, as we don't know, we must work all the same.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One moment, sir,' he said, 'Now, Kit near midnight, boy, and you still here!Get home, get home, and be true to your time in the morning, for there's work to do.
-- I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
-- This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter.
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- 'Dear grandfather,' cried the girl with an energy which shone in her flushed face, trembling voice, and impassioned gesture, 'I am not a child in that I think, but even if I am, oh hear me pray that we may beg, or work in open roads or fields, to earn a scanty living, rather than live as we do now.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maria Ivanovna said that the girl ought to be taught to work that she might become a useful servant, was exacting, punished, and even beat her when in bad humor.
-- She offered Maslova work as a washerwoman, but seeing what a hard life the washerwomen at her aunt's establishment were leading, she searched through the intelligence offices for a position as servant.
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
-- Nekhludoff was requested to return and establish his right to the inheritance and also to decide on the future management of the estates; whether the same system of letting out to the peasants, which prevailed during the lifetime of his mother, was to be continued, or, as the steward had strongly advised the deceased Princess, and now advised the young Prince, to augment the stock and work all the land himself.
-- There, on the misty river some incessant, slow work was going on.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time.
-- The Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing.
-- The work of ameliorating the conditions of life the true civilising process that makes life more and more secure had gone steadily on to a climax.
-- I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours that is another matter.
-- What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done?
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
-- 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.'
-- Haigha and Hatta set to work at once, carrying rough trays of white and brown bread.
-- He said "I hunt for haddocks' eyesAmong the heather bright,And work them into waistcoat-buttonsIn the silent night.And these I do not sell for goldOr coin of silvery shineBut for a copper halfpenny,And that will purchase nine.
-- So they set to work and fanned her with bunches of leaves, till she had to beg them to leave off, it blew her hair about so.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our natural distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.
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