jobless

英 [ˈdʒɒbləs]

美 [ˈdʒɑːbləs]

adj.  无工作的; 失业的; 失业者

经济

Collins.2 / BNC.12942 / COCA.14636

牛津词典

adj.

• 无工作的；失业的
  without a job
  1. The closure left 500 people jobless.
     这次倒闭使500人失业。
• 失业者
  people who are unemployed

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 失业的；无工作的
  Someone who isjoblessdoes not have a job, although they would like one.
  1. One in four people are now jobless in inner areas like Tottenham and Peckham.
     像托特纳姆和佩卡姆这样的内陆地区失业人口达1/4。
  2. ...the number of jobless people.
     失业人数
  3. The joblessare people who are jobless.
     失业者
  4. They joined the ranks of the jobless.
     他们加入了失业者的行列。

英英释义

adj

• not having a job
  1. idle carpenters
  2. jobless transients
  3. many people in the area were out of work
  Synonym:idleout of work

双语例句

• And I bet half of the31 percent of us Americans that have been jobless for over a year have been out of work for at least two years.
  我打赌，在我们31%的失业超过一年的美国人中，有一些人已经失业至少两年了。
• US unemployment figures for March showed the jobless rate stuck at 7 per cent
  3月份的美国失业数据显示失业率一直徘徊在7%上下。
• Globally, women are more likely to be jobless, bearing the worst setbacks of the economic crisis.
  全球性的问题是，妇女更容易失业，遭受更糟糕的经济危机的挫折。
• So the combination of millions of low-status jobless migrant labourers and unemployed graduates could form a highly combustible mix.
  因此数百万地位低下的无业民工和失业大学毕业生的结合，可能形成社会中的高度不稳定因素。
• Some indirect costs of unemployment, though, seem to be amplified when the jobless are young.
  然而，失业造成的一些间接成本，貌似因为是青年失业而有所扩大。
• One in four people are now jobless in inner areas like Tottenham and Peckham.
  像托特纳姆和佩卡姆这样的内陆地区失业人口达1/4。
• Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot on the dole.
  大多数政府就让那些长期失业的人领着救济金颓废度日。
• Some fear the US jobless rate may even rise in the coming months.
  有人担心，未来几个月里，美国的失业率甚至可能会上升。
• The official jobless rate conceals a surge in long-term unemployment to a postwar record.
  隐满了长期失业率蹿升的官方失业率创下战后记录。
• The severe recession and high jobless rates have not done nearly enough to lower labor costs.
  严重的经济衰退和高失业率尚不足以降低劳动力成本。