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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in these disastrous times, when the ingenuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might try to work such a formidable engine.
-- I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds.
-- You will find amongst the books which are my favourite study the work which you have published on `the depths of the sea.'
-- You have carried out your work as far as terrestrial science permitted you.
-- Works on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She laid down her work and looked at her sister.
-- She was busy, the end of the day was here, the work went on as a peaceful tide that is at flood, hushed to retire.
-- I think some of her work is really wonderful.
-- "Perfectly beautiful full of primitive passion ""Isn't it queer that she always likes little things? she must always work small things, that one can put between one's hands, birds and tiny animals.
-- He had rooms in Nottingham, because his work lay chiefly in that town.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm afraid, Mrs. Heathcliff, the door must bear the consequence of your servants' leisure attendance: I had hard work to make them hear me.
-- A high wind blustered round the house, and roared in the chimney: it sounded wild and stormy, yet it was not cold, and we were all together I, a little removed from the hearth, busy at my knitting, and Joseph reading his Bible near the table (for the servants generally sat in the house then, after their work was done).
-- He managed to continue work till nine o'clock, and then marched dumb and dour to his chamber.
-- A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
-- 'I'll not work any more to day: I'll stay with you.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.
-- Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.
-- On our little walk along the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explaining the work that was going forward how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly.
-- Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.
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