| Subject | English | Chinese |
| gen. | a body must be made to move, or no work is done | 必须使物体移动,否则便没有做功 |
| scient. | A doctor's work is to heal the sick | 医生的工作就是使病人康复。 |
| gen. | A good work performance is the requirement of a promotion. | 良好的工作表现是晋升的条件。 |
| scient. | A hydraulic machine is one that uses any liquid to do work. | 液压机是利用任何液体做功的机械。 |
| gen. | A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. | 专业人员就是即使在不喜欢做的时候，也能把工作做得不错的人。 (Cooke 库克) |
| proj.manag. | A senior engineer of a public body is assigned to supervise the construction work of the agency's new headquarters building | 一名公共机构高级工程师、 获派监督该机构兴建新总部大楼的工程 |
| proj.manag. | A simple implementation of a push model could be built where the work is sent to grid resources in a round-robin fashion | 推模式的简单实现是通过循环的方式将任务发送到网格资源上 |
| scient. | A tightly stretched spring is ready to do work. | 拉紧的弹簧随时准备做功。 |
| econ. | An agent's work is to sell, distribute or promote the sale of the products made by a certain factory | 代理商的工作就是推销、经销或促销某一厂家的产品 |
| scient. | Baking is often resorted to in ultrahigh vacuum work. | 超高真空作业常借助烘焙来完成。 |
| scient. | Energy is the capacity for doing work. | 能量是做功的能力。 |
| scient. | Field work is the lifeblood of geology. | 田野调查是地质学的生命力所在。 |
| mech.eng. | For safety reasons, vises and clamps securely hold the work piece as the hole is bored in order to prevent material from shifting unexpectedly | 为了安全，在钻孔的同时，台虎钳和夹钳牢牢地固定住工件，防止材料不小心移位 |
| scient. | Hard work is one avenue to success. | 努力工作是通向成功的一个途径。 |
| scient. | He is a glutton for work. | 他是个酷爱工作的人。 |
| gen. | he is getting no place in his work because he is going at it wrong | 因为他做得不对路 |
| gen. | he is getting no place in his work because he is going at it wrong | 他工作没有进展 |
| scient. | He is unequal to such important work. | 他不能胜任如此重要的工作。 |
| gen. | in machines less work is got out than what is put in | 输出的功小于输人的功 |
| gen. | in machines less work is got out than what is put in | 在机械里 |
| gen. | Is there an age limit for applying for a temporary work visa? | 申请短期工作签证有年龄限制吗？ |
| econ. | It is an engineer's responsibility to disapprove or reject any defective work or material | 否决或抵制任何有缺陷的施工或材料是工程师应尽的职责 |
| econ. | It is illegal to photocopy a copyright work | 复制有版权的作品是非法的 |
| scient. | It is important to see that the brakes work properly. | 注意刹车必须工作正常、这是很重要的。 |
| gen. | it is more necessary than ever for us to work hard | 我们比以往更需努力工作 |
| gen. | it is to be wished that the system of work will soon be settled | 希望工作制度不久就能定下来 |
| China, polit. | keep to the distribution system in which distribution according to work is dominant and diverse modes of distribution coexist | 坚持按劳分配为主体、多种分配方式并存的分配制度 |
| avia. | No cycle process is possible whose sole result is the flow of heat from a single heat reservoir and the performance of an equivalent amount of work on a work reservoir | 不可能建造这样一个循环工作的机器，这机器除了从单一热源吸热和举起重物作功之外，而不引起其他的变化 |
| gen. | Our boss is dead nuts on work. Keeping on working and making money is all that he has in his mind. | 我们的老板是个工作狂。满脑子就是工作和赚钱。 |
| scient. | Power is the rate that mechanical work is performed at. | 功率是作机械功的速率。 |
| gen. | Promotion is a reward for your good work. | 升职是对你工作出色的奖励。 |
| scient. | Pushing against something without moving it is not doing work. | 推某物而此物未移动就没有做功。 |
| expl. | The greatest source of error in the calculated energy and expansion work is the deviation from ideal detonation,which is large far most commercial explosives | 所计算的能量和膨胀功的最大误差源炸药无法达到理想爆轰、对于大多民用炸药来说、这个偏差很大 |
| watchm. | The matte black case is laced with glowing green accent and a metallic plate which all work together to yield a futuristic look | 黑色亚光的表壳点缀以亮绿色，外加金属表盘，组合在一起让外观充满未来主义的元素 |
| publ.secur. | The People's Procuratorate is responsible for procuratorial work, approval of arrests, investigation of cases directly accepted by the procuratorial organs, and prosecution | 检察、批准逮捕、检察机关直接受理的案件的侦查、提起公诉,由人民检察院负责 |
| scient. | The result is in favor of our research work. | 这结果有利于我们的研究工作。 |
| scient. | The time rate of doing work is called power. | 做功的时率称为功率。 |
| scient. | The work done against friction is transformed into heat. | 克服摩擦所作的功被转化为热。 |
| gen. | the work done against friction is transformed into heat | 克服摩擦所做的功被转化为热 |
| scient. | The work is about finished. | 工作就要做完了。 |
| gen. | The work isn't bad. Yet the salary is so small. | 工作倒是不错，就是薪水太少了。 |
| scient. | The work we are engaged on is a study of heat transfer. | 我们正从事的工作是研究传热。 |
| scient. | Their work is up to the standard. | 他们的工作合乎标准。 |
| gen. | There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | 成功没有秘诀。它是仔细准备、努力工作、从失败中吸取教训的结果。 (Gen. Colin L. Powell 吉•克林• L •鲍威尔) |
| gen. | there is much work to do | 有大量工作要做 |
| expl. | There is no cause to call the work group back | 没有理由召回工作组 |
| fash. | To design all cotton knitted fabric dyeing technology is a careful work | 纯棉针织物染色工艺的设计是一项周密严谨的工作 |
| scient. | Unless a body is moved, no work is done. | 除非物体被移动、否则就没有做功。 |
| gen. | We all admire that your work efficiency is very high | 我们很敬佩你们工作效率很高 |
| dentist. | What is your work here? | 您在这里做什么工作？ |
| China, polit. | work hard to ensure public finance is handled in accordance with the law by tightening financial oversight and management | 狠抓依法理财和财政监督管理 |
| gen. | work is equal to force times distance | 功等于力乘距离 |
| gen. | work is well on | 工作进行顺利 |
| busin. | work which is in the public domain | 无版权限制的著作 |
| busin. | work which is out of copyright | 已无版权的作品 |
| gen. | your tool is not so good, you may work with mine | 你的工具不那么好,你就用我的好了 |