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 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。
• The State shall encourage and support agricultural labourers to participate in the activities of agro-technical popularization.
  国家鼓励和支持农业劳动者参与农业技术推广活动。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He met mill hands, miners and farm labourers.
  他见过工厂工人、矿工和农场工人。
• 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。