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

• 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。
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• He met mill hands, miners and farm labourers.
  他见过工厂工人、矿工和农场工人。
• 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。
• 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。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。
• 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。
• 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。