1. The Red Cross did much work for prisoners-of-war during the two world wars.
    在两次世界大战中，红十字会都为战俘提供了很多救助。

2. Today the work goes on, for at any moment disaster may strike somewhere, and the Red Cross must be ready to journey to the ends of the earth, if necessary, and bring relief.
    如今，红十字会的工作仍在照常进行，因为随时都可能出现灾情，一旦需要，红十字会将奔赴天涯海角，提供救援。

3. The eagerness of my fancy prevailed and to work I went.
    我越想越来劲，便干了起来。

4. This was a great lesson to me, and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
    这事给了我很大教训。尽管为时太晚，我现在明白了：在开始做一件事之前，不先估计一下代价，不先正确地估计自己是否有做完这件事的力量，那真是太愚蠢了！

5. Tom´s mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work.
    汤姆看到苹果，口水直流，但是仍继续坚持他的工作。

6. They are sometimes pushed into their habit by their work beliefs, by workaholic role models, and by a work system that automatically sanctions workaholism.
    他们有时是被自己的工作信念、工作狂的行为模式以及一种工作狂自我认可的工作方式所逼而养成了这习惯的。

7. The companies are getting smaller and smaller because of bleak economic conditions and employees fear for their jobs — so they work longer hours.
    由于经济形势黯淡, 公司不断裁员, 雇员担心失去工作, 因此他们工作时间更长。

8. They equate self-worth and success with hard work.
    他们把自我价值和成功与拼命工作紧密相连。

9. They'd rather be at work than elsewhere or doing anything else.
    他们宁可干活，不愿到别的地方去或做其他事情。

10. They deny the excessive time they're devoting to work, and they rationalize that their schedule is for the family and essential to being promoted.
    他们否认自己在工作上花了太多的时间，他们自我辩解地说他们的工作是为了家庭，同时对升职也至关重要。