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 land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• 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。
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• If labourers can provide an economic benefit in agriculture, they can command a premium in the labour market.
  如果劳动者可以为农业提供经济收益，他们可以在劳动市场中获得额外的报酬。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But the consumption even of productive labourers is not all of it productive consumption.
  但即令是生产性劳动者的消费也不全是生产性消费。
• Training from agricultural scientists could help labourers make even more intelligent and well-informed crosses.
  来自农业科学家的培训可能帮助劳动者进行更智能和知情的作物杂交。
• He met mill hands, miners and farm labourers.
  他见过工厂工人、矿工和农场工人。