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

• There are several million industrial workers in China and several tens of millions of handicraft workers and agricultural labourers.
  中国有产业工人数百万，有手工业工人和农业工人数千万。
• 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。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most of the migrant labourers have no more than a middle-school education.
  大多数民工的受教育程度不超过中学水平。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。
• 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。