1·We worked far into the night.
我们工作到深夜。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·She worked abroad for a year.
她在国外工作了一年。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·They worked in four-hour stretches.
他们工作四小时一班。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·He worked in a butcher's.
他在肉铺工作。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·He worked sixteen hours a day.
他每天工作16个小时。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·The women on that mountain worked harder than any I'd ever met. They taught me the value of a whetstone to sharpen my knives, how to store food in the creek and keep it cold and safe.
山上的女人们是我见过的干活最卖力的，他们教会了我如何发挥磨刀石的作用去磨刀，以及如何在小溪里的低温下安全的存储食物。
2·And how long do you think you'll go on writing? The boy who worked in the soap factory asked again.
你认为你会继续写作多长时间？在肥皂厂干活的那个男孩又问道。
3·The speed with which Joe worked won Martin's admiration.
乔干活的速度赢得了马丁的赞赏。
4·They can usually earn a living, having typically worked on building sites since they were ten.
由于他们有10岁了，他们通常都能谋生，一般是在建筑工地干活。
5·They did not talk while they worked.
他们俩干活儿时不说话，说话会打乱步伐。 这回一说话就乱了。
1·Initially, the system worked well.
开始时系统运转良好。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·They couldn't fire him, he reasoned. He was the only one who knew how the system worked.
他分析他们不会解雇他。他是唯一知道这套系统如何运转的人。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·A crew of assistants oiled and adjusted the release mechanism until it worked perfectly.
助手们给排放装置加了润滑油并做了调节，直到其运转良好。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·The system worked well for hundreds of years.
这套灌溉系统良好运转了数百年。
5·If that was the intention, it seems to have worked too well.
如果那真的是此想法，它看起来运转得还不错。
1·I want to apologize to Lisa again for using her like that, but her foreigner face apparently worked.
我这么利用丽萨，要再次向她道歉。不过她的外国人面孔显然起了作用。
2·That worked, but the cost was additional, partially redundant code and more time to process the data.
那起了作用，但却产生了额外的代价，即部分多余的代码且需要花更多的时间处理数据。
3·The crisis response more or less worked.
危机应对措施或多或少起了作用。
4·What worked in Uganda?
是什么在乌干达起了作用？
5·The injection worked quite quickly and, after a while, he slept.
注射很快起了作用。不一会儿他就睡着了。