Can you finish the work by five o'clock?

你五点钟前能完成工作吗？

《牛津词典》

He did not finish the work till yesterday.

到昨天为止，他才做完那工作。

《新英汉大辞典》

He made a concentrated effort to finish the work on time.

他全力以赴以按时完成这项工作。

《牛津词典》

Then with the crash, nobody would finish the work.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

There was plenty of work to be done to complete the site and finish the work there.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to arms control

And now it falls to us to finish the work they have begun.

CNN: Text of President Bush's speech

The two companies joined forces in August 1998 to finish the work on the agonist molecule that had begun in the late 1980s.

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