a work

基本解释

The role of a work is to communicate its message to the spectator.
一部艺术作品的作用在于把它的含义传达给观众。
《新英汉大辞典》
The truth of a work changes with each reading, no one of which is exhaustive or more valid then another.
阅读一部作品，每次都能读到不同的道理，每个道理都不是详尽无遗的，也不是更有根据的。
This is not a work designed to encourage tourism. But it does make you think—about city living and memories.
这不是一本旨在促进旅游的作品，但是它却能使你思考——关于城市的生活和记忆。

For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.
He was responsible for writing the first justification for an armed rebellion against a legitimate monarch, the first to publish such a work in, essentially, all of Europe.
他是第一个为反对合法君主的武装叛乱,写辩护书的人，也是第一个在全欧洲将其发表的人。
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But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.
但是就兼职和短期工而言，工作似乎没变少，可能还更多了。
英国的影视产业 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Rapidly she flicked among its contents: a debit card, a work ID, a gym card.
NEWYORKER: Found Objects