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。
• The land was worked on by indentured labourers.
  这土地是由契约工人耕种的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 70 percent of all child labourers work in agriculture.
  所有童工中有70%从事农业劳动。
• During this period there was a redistribution of income away from labourers towards landowners and capitalists.
  这个时期存在着再分配，即劳工的收入转向地主和资本家。
• 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。
• 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。
• Mill workers were more productive and earned more than rural labourers.
  工厂工人生产力提高，收入超过农村劳动力。