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(yǔ)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？
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. There's a lack of fussiness about the way he works.
他工作時(shí)不會(huì)過(guò)分注重細(xì)節(jié)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes.