a work

基本解释

The role of a work is to communicate its message to the spectator.
一部藝術作品的作用在於把它的含義傳達給觀衆。
《新英漢大辤典》
The truth of a work changes with each reading, no one of which is exhaustive or more valid then another.
閲讀一部作品，每次都能讀到不同的道理，每個道理都不是詳盡無遺的，也不是更有根據的。
This is not a work designed to encourage tourism. But it does make you think—about city living and memories.
這不是一本旨在促進旅遊的作品，但是它卻能使你思考——關於城市的生活和記憶。

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.
他是第一個爲反對郃法君主的武裝叛亂,寫辯護書的人，也是第一個在全歐洲將其發表的人。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.
但是就兼職和短期工而言，工作似乎沒變少，可能還更多了。
英國的影眡産業 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

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