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单词 to work late
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to work late
b. intransitive. With adverb or noun phrase denoting the length of time or pattern of work. Frequently in to work late: to do one's work until a late hour or (now usually) after one's normal working hours. Cf. to work days at days adv., to work nights at nights adv., to work overtime at overtime adv.
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1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 96 Others..are..provoked..to worke early and late, that they may sell as cheape, and make as good worke as the Stranger.
1643 J. Caryl Expos. 3 First Chaps. Iob i. 36 Oh, they have a great many children, and they must rise early and they must worke late.
1792 European Mag. Feb. 92/2 Every day M. de Foureroy worked fourteen hours in his closet.
1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal viii. 179 The admiral..worked late and early himself, and made every body under him work.
1888 Rep. State Board Silk Culture Calif. 10 Many times the work in the Secretary's office was so rushed that it was necessary to work evenings.
1920 E. F. Corbett Puritan & Pagan 184 Roger worked long days, thereby involving long days for her.
1922 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 18 107 An unusual proportion of women who have worked part-time.
1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 642/1 He had a butcher shop and worked long hours.
1985 N.Z. Countryman Nov. 17/1 To keep the pot boiling she worked full-time again.
2010 L. Stepp Tell me about Orchard Hollow 15 All this time, I thought he was always working late. How could I have been so stupid?
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