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

• 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。
• They are emigrant labourers.
  他们是移居他国的劳工。
• Coolies and farm labourers have disappeared;
  苦力和雇农已经不存在了；
• 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。
• There are several million industrial workers in China and several tens of millions of handicraft workers and agricultural labourers.
  中国有产业工人数百万，有手工业工人和农业工人数千万。
• Taking only enough prisoners to replace the labourers lost from their work camps and restock their stores.
  只留下足够的囚徒以取代劳工营失去的奴工，和补充他们的收藏。
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• 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。
• They are ordinary labourers, sharing weal and woe with the people.
  他们是和人民群众同甘共苦的普通劳动者。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。