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laborer

/ley-ber-er/US // ˈleɪ bər ər //

劳动者,劳工,工作者,工人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
    • : any worker.

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Examples

  • Millions brace for more layoffs, hunger and utility shutoffs as stimulus talks break downOn Thursday, Jenkins drove her old Dodge Caravan to a place that hires day laborers, hoping she could get on a cleaning or roofing crew.

  • Software is increasingly able to replicate or exceed the performance of human laborers, just as companies are looking to cut costs amid a global economic downturn, which puts existing jobs at risk, Lee said.

  • He lived in a small village in Haryana and worked as a driver and laborer in the fields.

  • Employers now tend to only hire laborers who have their own cars, one laborer told VOSD, out of fears of contracting the virus.

  • Last month, for example, the government banned dining in restaurants as part of its effort to suppress the third wave, effectively forcing manual laborers to eat on the street.

  • Shadman started as a laborer, but within a year became an interpreter because he could speak English.

  • Soon the missing construction laborer had become a national cause célèbre.

  • On his “Certificate of Employment during the War,” Tudor is listed as a farm laborer.

  • Anschutz, a non-drinker, was a 57-year-old laborer at a local moving company.

  • Sondra Wiener, forced to make pocket money like an out-of-work laborer, endures the pity of her neighbors.

  • His parents were peasants and he wrought as a day laborer till he attracted attention.

  • The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure.

  • The Washington manual laborer school and the Howard institution can bear testimony to his industry and patriotism.

  • Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.

  • She went through the usual routine of housework like a laborer who drags after him a ball and chain.