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

• 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。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hard-working unskilled labourers all have jobs in Macao.
  在澳门，工作努力的非熟练劳动力都有工作。
• Coolies and farm labourers have disappeared;
  苦力和雇农已经不存在了；
• 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。
• They are emigrant labourers.
  他们是移居他国的劳工。
• 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。