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

• Coolies and farm labourers have disappeared;
  苦力和雇农已经不存在了；
• 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。
• 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。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• 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。
• The principle of relying on poor peasants and farm labourers and uniting with middle peasants had to be grasped.
  （四）掌握依靠贫雇农、团结中农的原则。
• 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。
• 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。