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.
权威例句
1. How can I read a Microsoft Excel file on a computer that only has Works installed?
我怎样在只安装了Works软件的电脑上读取微软的Excel文件呢?
2. There's a lack of fussiness about the way he works.
他工作时不会过分注重细节。
3. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes.
现在他的其他主要作品又悄然出现在音乐会节目单上。
4. Depression is the third thing that works to my patients' disadvantage.
抑郁是威胁我的病人健康的第三大杀手。
5. He works obsessively from 7.15 am to 9 or 10 at night.