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；
• Even more distressing are cases where farm labourers find innovative solutions, but these are then disregarded.
  更令人沮丧的是农业劳动者发现了创新的解决方案却又把它们抛弃了。
• 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。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。
• 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。
• 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。
• On one hand, the agricultural labourers have made the tremendous contribution for the city;
  一方面，农民工为城市的繁荣昌盛作出了巨大的贡献；
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• 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。
• The farmer hired several day labourers.
  农场主雇佣了好几个日工。