blue-collar

英 [ˌbluː ˈkɒlə(r)]

美 [ˌbluː ˈkɑːlər]

adj.  从事体力劳动的; 蓝领的

BEC

牛津词典

adj.

• 从事体力劳动的；蓝领的
  connected with people who do physical work in industry
  1. blue-collar workers/voters/votes
     蓝领工人 / 选民 / 选票

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 蓝领的；从事体力劳动的
  Blue-collarworkers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  1. By 1925, blue-collar workers in manufacturing industry had become the largest occupational group.
     到1925年，制造业的蓝领工人已成为最大的职业群体。

双语例句

• Benjamin spent less time with intellectuals and more with his blue-collar employees, and sure enough, his business sense surged.
  Benjamin花更少的时间和知识分子在一起，更多的时间和蓝领在一起，果不其然，他的商业感大大提高。
• Many women whose husbands were blue-collar workers had white-collar jobs themselves.
  许多丈夫为蓝领劳工的妇女本身却从事白领的工作。
• If you look at job trends over the last 100 years, blue-collar and farming jobs are disappearing, but service industry and white-collar jobs are on a steady and welcome rise.
  如果你看一下在过去一百年的发展趋势，可以发现蓝领和农场工作正在消失，但是服务业和白领工作呈现稳定增长的趋势。
• In a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, an old school has been converted into a dormitory for 88 students from China.
  在底特律一个蓝领聚居的郊区，人们将一所老学校改造成了宿舍楼，供来自中国的88名学生居住。
• All the blue-collar workers who worked on the construction site went on strike.
  所有在工地工作的工人参加了罢工。
• The town remains largely blue-collar, but manufacturing jobs are hard to come by.
  如今镇上的居民仍以蓝领工人为主，但制造业的工作很难找。
• As denim became more and more essential to blue-collar worker wear, the need for indigo increased, too.
  由于牛仔布越来越重要的蓝领工人磨损，对靛蓝需要增加，也。
• A squeeze on bank lending has prompted some businesses short of cash to stop paying wages to blue-collar workers.
  银行贷款收紧导致一些现金不足的企业暂停给蓝领工人发工资。
• There are some drawbacks to unions? But they have done a lot of good for blue-collar workers.
  工会是有些缺点，但他们为蓝领工人谋了不少福利。
• The disappearance of blue-collar and entry-level jobs is already a problem, and that problem will grow.
  蓝领阶层和基础职位的消失已经成了一个问题，而这个问题还将继续扩大。