labourers

英 [ˈleɪbərəz]

美 [ˈleɪˌbaʊrərz]

n.  (尤指户外的)体力劳动者，劳工，工人
labourer的复数

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 laborer


• N-COUNT 体力劳动者；劳工
  Alaboureris a person who does a job which involves a lot of hard physical work.
  1. He has worked as a labourer in factories and on building sites...
     他在工厂和建筑工地干过苦工。
  2. Her husband had been a farm labourer.
     她丈夫以前是个农场雇工。

双语例句

• The farmer hired several day labourers.
  农场主雇佣了好几个日工。
• China is facing a critical shortage of labourers caused by 30 years of restricting family size.
  30年来对家庭规模的限制，造成了中国当前面临严重的劳动力短缺。
• He met mill hands, miners and farm labourers.
  他见过工厂工人、矿工和农场工人。
• About 9000 migrant labourers from China and Hong Kong will have to find jobs elsewhere.
  来自中国内地和香港的大约9000名民工将不得不另谋出路。
• The productive forces consist of two factors, labourers and tools.
  生产力就是两项：劳动者和工具。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。
• So the combination of millions of low-status jobless migrant labourers and unemployed graduates could form a highly combustible mix.
  因此数百万地位低下的无业民工和失业大学毕业生的结合，可能形成社会中的高度不稳定因素。
• Even more distressing are cases where farm labourers find innovative solutions, but these are then disregarded.
  更令人沮丧的是农业劳动者发现了创新的解决方案却又把它们抛弃了。
• Mill workers were more productive and earned more than rural labourers.
  工厂工人生产力提高，收入超过农村劳动力。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。