Old English, "(someone's) deeds, acts, or actions, the things one has done in life," often especially "good deeds, acts of piety, demonstrations of virtue," plural of work (n.). Meaning "operations pertinent to maintaining a large physical place" (private, religious, or municipal) is from late 14c. Meaning "industrial place" (usually with qualifying adjective) is from late 15c. To be in the works in the extended sense of "in the process of being done or made" is by 1973.
雙語例句
1. How can I read a Microsoft Excel file on a computer that only has Works installed?
我怎樣在只安裝了Works軟件的電腦上讀取微軟的Excel文件呢？
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2. There's a lack of fussiness about the way he works.
他工作時不會過分注重細節。
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3. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes.
現在他的其他主要作品又悄然出現在音樂會節目單上。
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4. Depression is the third thing that works to my patients' disadvantage.
抑郁是威脅我的病人健康的第三大殺手。
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5. He works obsessively from 7.15 am to 9 or 10 at night.