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

• 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。
• On one hand, the agricultural labourers have made the tremendous contribution for the city;
  一方面，农民工为城市的繁荣昌盛作出了巨大的贡献；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。