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At their best, they are works of art and there is a tactile(触觉的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
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The model works for items that are expensive to buy and are widely owned by people who do not make full use of them
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But the remarkable thing is how well the system usually works
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She works in the entertainment business.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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He has discovered it – babies don't even know that language exists – and he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriately.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
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A new Peabody study of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K program reports that pre-K works, but the gains are not sustained through the third grade.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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According to a newly published study, cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey (猎物) using both their ears and an inborn (天生的) understanding of how the physical world works.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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He showed me around the orphanage he works at.
2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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However, we also verified that Simpli Safe's anti-jamming system works.
2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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I must say I agree with you about there being bad feelings in the works.
2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.
2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree and works in public health,was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did.
2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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The weight of the evidence is on the side of pre-K that early intervention works.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a "brown patch" on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
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It's important that we do research so that we know how well something like this works.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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But, within the US, the company has scanned both in-copyright and out-of-copyright works.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission," says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London
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Google has reversed this – it has simply copied all these works without bothering to ask.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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Google will be able to display up to 20% of orphan works for free, include them in its subscription deals to libraries and sell them to individual buyers under the consumer licence
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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Books whose copyright holders are not known are called orphan works.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文
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But try to imagine our world as well without the remarkable works that have defined our culture and values.
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Personally I can't quite see the meaning in his modern works.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
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Literary works calling for the abolition of slavery.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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Lots of lost works written by African-American women
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Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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The man is uncertain how his art works will be received
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The man works in the same department as the woman does.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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The actor type works better in tough negotiations.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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He works hard to support his five kids
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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Come back a month later and see if the link works.
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It is used in personal context, on radio broadcasts and in a number of publications as well as in translations of both modern works and classics.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
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It is taught in universities and used in many translations, often in scientific or technological works
出自-2010年6月听力原文
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Any take-back program will likely change over time, depending on what works for your customers and company goals.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere -with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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If you want to take mental photos, that works the same way,'' Dehl says.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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It works for things as boring as archaeological museums, where people were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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Its headquarters houses some 3,000 works of art.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
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She says she is aware that plenty of people do not want to eat genetically modified crops, but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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Sometimes the old stuff just works better or more efficiently.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
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The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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Today our guest is Rosie Melinda who works as a features editor for Fashion magazine.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
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Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
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Unfortunately, the average full time employee in the world works 42 hours a week.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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VERB
工作;从业;就职
People who work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
例句
Weiner works for the US Department of Transport...
韦纳就职于美国交通部。
I started working in a recording studio...
我开始在一个录音棚工作。
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N-UNCOUNT
工作;职业
People who have work or who are in work have a job, usually one which they are paid to do.
例句
Fewer and fewer people are in work...
就业人数越来越少。
I was out of work at the time...
那时我失业了。
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VERB
工作;劳动;干活
When you work, you do the things that you are paid or required to do in your job.
例句
I can't talk to you right now—I'm working...
这会儿我不能跟你说话——我在干活儿。
He was working at his desk...
他正在桌前用功。
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N-UNCOUNT
工作;活儿;活计
Your work consists of the things you are paid or required to do in your job.
例句
We're supposed to be running a business here. I've got work to do...
我们在这里应该是要经营公司。我有一堆的事情要做。
I used to take work home, but I don't do it any more...
我过去常把活儿带回家干,不过我如今再也不这么做了。
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VERB
努力干;用功
When you work, you spend time and effort doing a task that needs to be done or trying to achieve something.
例句
Linda spends all her time working on the garden...
琳达把所有时间都花在打理花园上。
While I was working on my letter the telephone rang...
我正在写信,电话铃响了。
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N-UNCOUNT
工作单位;工作地点
Work is the place where you do your job.
例句
Many people travel to work by car...
很多人开车去上班。
She told her friends at work that she was trying to lose weight.
她跟单位的朋友说她在努力减肥。
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N-UNCOUNT
工作成果
Work is something which you produce as a result of an activity or as a result of doing your job.
例句
It can help to have an impartial third party look over your work...
让客观公正的第三方看一下你的成果会有助益。
Tidiness in the workshop is really essential for producing good work...
工作间干净整洁对于生产出好的产品非常重要。
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N-COUNT
(艺术家、作家、作曲家等的)作品;著作
A work is something such as a painting, book, or piece of music produced by an artist, writer, or composer.
例句
In my opinion, this is Rembrandt's greatest work...
我认为这是伦勃朗最伟大的作品。
Under his arm, there was a book which looked like the complete works of Shakespeare...
他胳膊底下夹着一本书,看上去就像是夹了《莎士比亚全集》。
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VERB
研究;对…作调查
If someone is working on a particular subject or question, they are studying or researching it.
例句
Professor Bonnet has been working for many years on molecules of this type.
邦尼特教授多年来一直在从事这种分子的研究工作。
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VERB
协助;帮助
If you work with a person or a group of people, you spend time and effort trying to help them in some way.
例句
She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer...
她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。
He knew then that he wanted to work among the poor.
他那时明白了自己想帮助穷人。
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VERB
(机器或设备)运转,运行
If a machine or piece of equipment works, it operates and performs a particular function.
例句
The pump doesn't work and we have no running water...
水泵坏了,我们没有自来水了。
Is the telephone working today?...
电话今天能用吗?
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VERB
奏效;成功
If an idea, system, or way of doing something works, it is successful, effective, or satisfactory.
例句
95 per cent of these diets do not work...
这些节食方法95%都不起作用。
If lust is all there is to hold you together, the relationship will never work...
如果肉欲是你们在一起的唯一理由,这种关系是不会持久的。
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VERB
(药物)起作用,产生疗效
If a drug or medicine works, it produces a particular physical effect.
例句
I wake at 6 am as the sleeping pill doesn't work for more than nine hours...
安眠药的药效不会超过9个小时,所以我清晨6点就醒了。
The drug works by increasing levels of serotonin in the brain.
这种药物通过提高大脑中血清素的含量来产生疗效。
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VERB
产生(有利或不利的)影响
If something works in your favour, it helps you in some way. If something works to your disadvantage, it causes problems for you in some way.
例句
One factor thought to have worked in his favour is his working class image...
据认为,一个帮上了他的因素就是他的工人阶级形象。
This obviously works against the interests of the child.
这显然会对孩子不利。
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VERB
对…产生(神奇的影响);使…深受(魅力感染)
If something or someone works their magic or works their charms on a person, they have a powerful positive effect on them.
例句
Nevertheless, she is always optimistic about the possibilities and can work her charm on the disenchanted...
虽然如此,她总是乐观地抱持希望,并能深深地感染那些心灰意冷的人。
Our spirits rallied as the bitter-sweet alcohol worked its magic.
苦中带甜的酒发挥了奇效,我们的精神随之振奋起来。
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VERB
(脑筋)转动,开动
If your mind or brain is working, you are thinking about something or trying to solve a problem.
例句
My mind was working frantically, running over the events of the evening.
我的大脑疯狂地运转,把那晚发生的事情飞快地一幕幕重演。
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VERB
以(某种假定或思想)为基础(或前提)
If you work on an assumption or idea, you act as if it were true or base other ideas on it, until you have more information.
例句
We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion.
我们假设这是一场燃气爆炸事故。
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VERB
在(某地或某类场所)工作;在…奔波
If you work a particular area or type of place, you travel around that area or work in those places as part of your job, for example trying to sell something there.
例句
Brand has been working the clubs and the pubs since 1986, developing her comedy act...
布兰德自1986年以来一直在俱乐部和酒吧表演,提高她的喜剧演技。
This is the seventh year that he has worked the streets of Manhattan.
这是他在曼哈顿街头献艺的第7个年头。
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VERB
让…干活;让…工作
If you work someone, you make them spend time and effort doing a particular activity or job.
例句
They're working me too hard. I'm too old for this...
他们把我用得太狠了,我老了,干不了这种活儿啦。
They didn't take my father away, but kept him in the village and worked him to death.
他们没有把我爸爸带走,而是一直让他在村里干活,把他活活累死了。
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VERB
(常指政客或艺人)博得,赢得(众人的支持或欢心)
If someone, often a politician or entertainer, works a crowd, they create a good relationship with the people in the crowd and get their support or interest.
例句
The Prime Minister has an ability to work a crowd — some might even suggest it is a kind of charm...
首相有种感召人群的本事——有些人甚至认为这是一种魅力。
He worked the room like a politician, gripping hands, and slapping backs.
他又是握手,又是拍背,像个政客一样把一屋子的人都笼络了一番。
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VERB
种,耕种(地)
When people work the land, they do all the tasks involved in growing crops.
例句
Farmers worked the fertile valleys.
农民们在肥沃的山谷里耕种。
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VERB
开采(矿)
When a mine is worked, minerals such as coal or gold are removed from it.
例句
The mines had first been worked in 1849, when gold was discovered in California...
1849年加利福尼亚发现金矿时,这些矿第一次被开采。
Only an agreed number of men was allowed to work any given seam at any given time.
只有少数得到批准的人可以在特定时间开采特定的矿层。
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VERB
使用,操纵(机器或设备)
If you work a machine or piece of equipment, you use or control it.
例句
Many adults still depend on their children to work the video.
很多成年人仍然要靠孩子来操作录像机。
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VERB
慢慢变成;逐渐变得
If something works into a particular state or condition, it gradually moves so that it is in that state or condition.
例句
A screw had worked loose from my glasses.
我眼镜上有一个螺丝松了。
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VERB
按,压,揉(面团、黏土等)
If you work a substance such as dough or clay, you keep pressing it to make it have a particular texture.
例句
Work the dough with the palm of your hand until it is very smooth...
用手掌将面团揉至光滑为止。
Remove rind from the cheese and work it to a firm paste, with a fork.
将奶酪的外皮去掉,用叉子将其压成硬硬的膏状。
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VERB
加工;处理
If you work a material such as metal, leather, or stone, you cut, sew, or shape it in order to make something or to create a design.
例句
...the machines needed to extract and work the raw stone.
开采加工原石的机器
...a long, cool tunnel of worked stone.
一条跨度长且阴凉的石凿隧道
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VERB
使用,采用(某种材料或物质)
If you work with a particular substance or material, you use it in order to make something or to create a design.
例句
He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay.
他学习雕塑是因为他喜欢玩黏土。
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V-ERG
(使)(身体某部分)活动
If you work a part of your body, or if it works, you move it.
例句
Each position will work the muscles in a different way...
每种姿势都会以不同方式活动肌肉。
Her mouth was working in her sleep.
她睡着的时候嘴巴还在动。
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N-COUNT-COLL
工厂
A works is a place where something is manufactured or where an industrial process is carried out. Works is used to refer to one or to more than one of these places.
例句
The steel works could be seen for miles.
这个钢厂几英里外都能看见。
...a recycling works.
回收工厂
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N-PLURAL
土木工程;建筑工程
Works are activities such as digging the ground or building on a large scale.
例句
...six years of disruptive building works, road construction and urban development.
6年间进行的破坏性的建筑工程、道路修筑和城市扩建
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N-SING
(某种类型的)全部物件,全套物品
You can say the works after listing things such as someone's possessions or requirements, to emphasize that they possess or require everything you can think of in a particular category.
例句
Amazing place he's got there—squash courts, swimming pool, jacuzzi, the works.
他的那个地方真是太棒了——壁球场、游泳池、按摩浴池,一应俱全。
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PHRASE
干活儿;做工作;忙着做事
If someone is at work they are doing their job or are busy doing a particular activity.
例句
The salvage teams are already hard at work trying to deal with the spilled oil...
救援队已经在紧张地设法处理溢出的石油。
He is currently at work on a novel...
他这会儿正忙着写一篇小说。
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PHRASE
起作用;发挥效用
If a force or process is at work, it is having a particular influence or effect.
例句
The report suggested that the same trend was at work in politics...
这份报告表明,同一趋势也在影响着政治。
It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.
重要的是,要理解在我们自身行动背后起作用的强大的经济和社会力量。
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PHRASE
(做…)有很大困难,困难重重
If you say that you will have your work cut out to do something, you mean that it will be a very difficult task.
例句
The new administration has its work cut out for it. Creating jobs in this kind of environment is not going to be easy...
新一届政府面临重重困难。在这种环境下创造就业机会绝非易事。
He will have his work cut out to get into the team.
他要进入该队困难重重。
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PHRASE
已列入计划;已开始
If something is in the works, it has already been planned or begun.
例句
He said there were dozens of economic plans in the works...
他说有几十项经济计划已经开始实施。
Nobody should be surprised by this. It's been in the works for some time.
不应该有人对此感到惊奇,这事已经张罗了有一阵子了。
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PHRASE
(费力或轻而易举地)做,完成
You can use work to talk about how easily or quickly a particular task is done. For example, if a person or thing makes short work of doing something or makes light work of it, they do it quickly and easily.
例句
An aerosol spray will make short work of painting awkward objects...
用喷罐来喷涂,不好对付的物品也能轻松搞定。
This horse made light work of the cross-country course...
这匹马轻松地跑完了越野赛程。
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PHRASE
讨厌鬼;恶棍
If you describe someone as a nasty piece of work, you think they are very unpleasant or cruel.
例句
Underneath I think he's actually a rather nasty piece of work.
内心里我觉得他是个非常讨厌的家伙。
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PHRASE
让…工作;派给…任务
If you put someone to work or set them to work, you give them a job or task to do.
例句
By stimulating the economy, we're going to put people to work...
我们将通过刺激经济让人们实现就业。
Instead of sending them to prison, we have set them to work helping the lemon growers.
我们没有把他们送进监狱,而是让他们帮种柠檬的果农干活儿。
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PHRASE
开始做;着手处理
If you get to work ,go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
例句
He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit...
他承诺着手解决国家庞大的财政赤字问题。
He returned to America where he set to work on a new novel.
他返回美国,开始写一部新小说。
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PHRASE
艰难地移动;缓慢地取得进展
If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
例句
Rescuers were still working their way towards the trapped men...
营救人员仍在艰难地向被困者靠拢。
Many personnel managers started as secretaries or personnel assistants and worked their way up.
很多人事经理最初是从秘书或人事助理做起,然后慢慢升上去的。
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CONVENTION
干得不错;干得漂亮
You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
例句
Nice work, Matthew. I knew you could do it.
干得好,马修。我知道你能行。