Working

(noun.) a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked.

(adj.) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; 'discussed the working draft of a peace treaty'; 'they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects' .

(adj.) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; 'the party has a working majority in the House'; 'a working knowledge of Spanish' .

(adj.) actively engaged in paid work; 'the working population'; 'the ratio of working men to unemployed'; 'a working mother'; 'robots can be on the job day and night' .

(adj.) adopted as a temporary basis for further work; 'a working draft'; 'a working hypothesis' .

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• A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Taking the horse power as the equivalent of the work of five men, the work of steam is equivalent to that of a population of 500,000,000 working men. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He was one with the _Ingl閟_ still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• For a long time, though studying and working patiently, I had accustomed myself to robust exercise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Metallurgy is an ancient art, and the working of gold, silver and copper dates back to the beginning of history. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The streets were thronged with working people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, supporting ourselves everywhere by working at our business. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Of the working out of these beginnings we shall tell later. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bradley looked at the fire, with a working face, and was silent for a while. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Even to us he assumed gaiety and hope, and assumed them so well, that we did not divine the secret workings of his mind. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She seemed to hinder one's workings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It left less to chance, less to mere individual logical conviction, less to the workings of private self-interest. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Now, merciful Heaven be thanked for that old time, and grant, O Blessed Lord, that through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The old workings could not get at it, that was all. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Then break the neck of the old workings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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