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

• She loathed being the child of impoverished labourers.
  她憎恨自己是贫困工人的孩子。
• Worse still, both unemployed migrant labourers and graduates will be concentrated in urban areas throughout China.
  更糟糕的是，失业民工和大学毕业生将集中在中国各地的城市。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The productive forces consist of two factors, labourers and tools.
  生产力就是两项：劳动者和工具。
• 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。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• They have had to seek work as labourers
  他们只好找体力活儿干。