喜樂美語

核心畫面

At the root, to work is to pour your time and energy into a task. Hold the picture of someone bent over a job, putting force into it: that effort is the seed. From it everything grows—doing it for money, making a thing run, shaping material, the job itself, the thing the effort produces.

可以想成 work 的核心畫面，比較像一個人把『時間和力氣傾注到一件事情上』——身體前傾、出力去做。所有用法都從這顆…更多收起可以想成 work 的核心畫面，比較像一個人把『時間和力氣傾注到一件事情上』——身體前傾、出力去做。所有用法都從這顆種子長出來：把這力氣換成錢，可以想成『上班』；讓東西照樣運轉，可以想成『奏效』；把力氣施加在材料上，可以想成『加工』；而這件事本身、它做出來的成品，就成了名詞的 work。

原始詞典資料50 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Workname

  • 1

    A surname.

worknoun詞源 1/wɜː(ɹ)k/

  • 1

    Employment.

    • My work involves a lot of travel.
    • Come on Neriſſa, I haue worke in hand / That you yet know not of; wee'll ſee our husbands / Before they thinke of vs?
  • 2

    Employment.

    • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  • 3

    Employment.

    • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  • 4

    datedEmployment.

    • In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after[…]
  • 5

    Effort.

    • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
    • Fifteen years of hard work went into the property's creation, which was undertaken by a legion of architects, designers, preservation and restoration experts, engineers, consultants, and artists.
  • 6

    Effort.

    • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
    • We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
  • 7

    Effort.

    • There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
  • 8

    Effort.

    • has had a lot of work done
    • Luckily, our eyes have grown accustomed after decades of Botox, fillers and extreme “work” going mainstream, so we don’t notice the weirdness and read it instead as maximum hotness. Thank you, progress!
另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangEffort.

    • putting in work
  • 10

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsEffort.

    • Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:work.
  • 11

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsEffort.

    • Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
  • 12

    Product; the result of effort.

    • There's a lot of guesswork involved.
  • 13

    Product; the result of effort.

    • We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
  • 14

    Product; the result of effort.

    • It is a work of art.
    • the poetic works of Alexander Pope
  • 15

    Product; the result of effort.

    • William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
  • 16

    slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleThe staging of events to appear as real.

  • 17

    businessminingOre before it is dressed.

  • 18

    slangThe equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

    • Tell me you're using clean works at least.
    • He gave me a sour look. “All right is it? Well, you shoot some then.” I cooked up a grain and got out my works ready to take the shot.
  • 19

    The confident attitude of a drag queen.

    • All told, werk is about creativity, virtuosity, and a certain kind of mastery.
    • If the voice coming out of my body is legibly male, it complicates my presence. The work starts to approach that mysterious state of werq.

workverb詞源 2/wɜː(ɹ)k/

  • 1

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • He's working in a bar.
    • The world’s favorite airport and Asian mega-hub, Singapore Changi, is eagerly working towards opening its new Jewel and Terminal 5.
  • 2

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • I work in a national park.
    • She works in the human resources department.
  • 3

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
    • I work as a cleaner.
  • 4

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • She works for Microsoft.
    • He works for the President.
  • 5

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
    • You work with computers, right?
  • 6

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • She works the night clubs.
    • The salesman works the Midwest.
  • 7

    To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

    • She's working the phones.
  • 8

    To be operative in a specified way.

    • This dough does not work easily.
    • The soft metal works well.
另外 22 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To be operative in a specified way.

    • He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
    • He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.
  • 10

    To be operative in a specified way.

    • The chef's steak frites just didn't work for me.
    • That shirt doesn't work on her.
  • 11

    To be operative in a specified way.

    • And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, “I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!”
    • So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: "Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne'er undo, I forgave you long ago."
  • 12

    obsoleteTo be operative in a specified way.

    • ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
  • 13

    slangTo be operative in a specified way.

    • I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.
  • 14

    To be operative in a specified way.

    • Plus, all that gym work means you've got muscles for days. You gotta werk it, babe." She puts a swish and swing into her next few steps before she bursts out laughing, and I have to join in.
    • Today, almost three decades later, the sentence, "You better work" from the song is used on a daily basis.
  • 15

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • He worked the levers.
  • 16

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
    • They were told of a ſilver mine, that had been worked by the Spaniards, ſomewhere in the Healthſhire Hills, in St. Catharine; but they were not able to diſcover it.
  • 17

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
  • 18

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
    • "Still, boozers can be worked sometimes. Most people can, if you encourage their kink. One old woman staked me for three months because she got such a kick out of scandalmongering the neighbours to me."
  • 19

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • She knows how to work the system.
  • 20

    lawTo cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • I cannot work a miracle.
    • Failure to hold the annual meeting, or to otherwise conduct the business of the annual meeting, shall not work a forfeiture or dissolution of the Cooperative.
  • 21

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • He is working his servants hard.
  • 22

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • They worked on her to join the group.
  • 23

    To cause to operate, be productive, behave a certain way, or happen.

    • He worked that basketball like a boss!
  • 24

    To continue laboriously.

    • to work into the earth
    • We worked back again and picked up our intended route, but we did not find the clear run I had hoped for.
  • 25

    To continue laboriously.

    • He worked his way through the crowd.
    • The dye worked its way through.
  • 26

    To continue laboriously.

    • Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.
    • So the pure limpid Stream, when foul with Stains / Of ruſhing Torrents, and deſcending Rains, / Work’s it ſelf clear, and as it runs, refines; / ’Till by Degrees, the floating Mirrour ſhines, / […]
  • 27

    To continue laboriously.

    • His fingers worked with tension.
    • A ship works in a heavy sea.
  • 28

    To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars).

  • 29

    To ferment (produce alcohol from sugars).

    • For Inanimate Things, you may trie the Force of Imagination, vpon Staying the Working of Beere, when the Barme is put in; Or vpon the Comming of Butter, or Cheeſe, after the Cherming, or the Rennet bee put in.
  • 30

    To embroider with thread.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。