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

• 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。
• They are emigrant labourers.
  他们是移居他国的劳工。
• Worse still, both unemployed migrant labourers and graduates will be concentrated in urban areas throughout China.
  更糟糕的是，失业民工和大学毕业生将集中在中国各地的城市。
• The farm employed a tractor driver and two general labourers.
  农场雇用了一名拖拉机手和两名杂工。
• She loathed being the child of impoverished labourers.
  她憎恨自己是贫困工人的孩子。
• During this period there was a redistribution of income away from labourers towards landowners and capitalists.
  这个时期存在着再分配，即劳工的收入转向地主和资本家。
• During our residency we collect the worn-out gloves of the labourers from the road.
  在我们的进驻期间我们在路上收集了民工们穿破了的手套。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。
• 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。
• Taking only enough prisoners to replace the labourers lost from their work camps and restock their stores.
  只留下足够的囚徒以取代劳工营失去的奴工，和补充他们的收藏。