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longshoreman

/lawng-shawr-muhn, -shohr-, long-/US // ˈlɔŋˈʃɔr mən, -ˈʃoʊr-, ˈlɒŋ- //UK // (ˈlɒŋˌʃɔːmən) //

码头工人,码头工,码头人,码头人员

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural long·shore·men.

    • : a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.

Examples

  • Consequently, it takes more trucks, more longshoremen, and more time to move cargo.

  • The eye-opener appears to be designed with a longshoreman or heavy drinker in mind.

  • Now he was back on the campaign trail, meeting with longshoremen in New Jersey.

  • From 1934 to 1942, he was a busboy, a dishwasher, a truck driver, and a longshoreman.

  • This girl was 'keeping company' with a longshoreman, who had as much as $25 in good weeks.

  • In their company, he traveled through Russia in every sense of the word, now as a longshoreman, now as a wood-chopper.

  • At the bar, a laughing longshoreman pushed a five-centavo coin into the nickeled red juke box, pressed the "Bsame" button.

  • You could see he was yearning, just dying, to taste of a middle-aged longshoreman by the name of Obed Nickerson.

  • The sailor and the train-hand, the longshoreman and the teamster, transport them to the industrial centres.