I'm not kidding you. It does work.

我不是戏弄你，那的确有效。

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So what does work?

那什么奏效呢？

youdao

He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work.

他不断探索、实验、尝试并检验成效，不停修改、改进，直到它能顺利运行。

youdao

An astronaut who does work outside the space shuttle usually is wearing more than seventeen pieces of protective equipment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

As we said, Newtonian mechanics does work in most cases, it does work when we're discussing things that we can see, it does work even on things that are too small to measure.

在大部分情况下都适用,对我们可以看到的东西,它都能适用，甚至对一些小到,无法测量的东西它也可以适用。

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Yeah, I think it happens when your schedule does not work out the way you expected it to.

会的。有的时候你的生活并不能按照你所设想的计划进行。

临时抱佛脚？也做过 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Even if the technology does work, Gray said it won't completely halt a hurricane.

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Let us instead accept that it does work at times and not at others.

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But that raises a very powerful question: What if Open Wire does work out?

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