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

• 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。
• The farmer hired several day labourers.
  农场主雇佣了好几个日工。
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• 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；
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• They are emigrant labourers.
  他们是移居他国的劳工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。