out of work
英 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːk]
美 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːrk]
adj. 失业的; 下岗的
Collins.1
柯林斯词典
- ADJ 失业的;下岗的
Someone who isout of workdoes not have a job.- ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
通常有半数男子失业的城镇 - ...an out of work actor.
没戏演的演员
- ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
英英释义
adj
- not having a job
- idle carpenters
- jobless transients
- many people in the area were out of work
双语例句
- I'm never out of work because I have so many strings to my bow.
我会很多手艺,永远都不会没饭吃。 - He got into the red because he had been out of work for more than two years.
他负了债,因为他失业两年多了。 - Then the depression had thrown almost everybody out of work and the jerry-built houses had been neglected, and as rudolph's mother complained, the entire town had become a single slum.
接着,经济萧条差不多使所有的人都失了业,那些偷工减料盖成的房子也都无人照料;正如鲁道的母亲所抱怨的那样,整个市镇简直成了一个贫民窟。 - Idle carpenters; jobless transients; many people in the area were out of work.
闲着的木匠;失业的瞬时现象;这个地区的许多人都失业了。 - He was out of work owing to a physical injury
他因为受伤而失业了。 - I just do not want to run all day long out of work.
我想找个不需要成天往外跑的工作。 - He has been out of work since he was graduated from the middle school.
他自从中学毕业以后,他就失业了。 - They were unwilling to keep her any longer, out of work.
她失了业,他们不愿意再留她住了。 - The studio could punish its players by keeping them out of work, and otherwise controlling their lives.
电影公司能通过让艺人坐冷板凳来惩罚他们,并采用其他方式控制他们的生活。 - Some of us have been out of work for years.
我们中有些人已经失业好几年了。