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navvy

/nav-ee/US // ˈnæv i //UK // (ˈnævɪ) //

脐带血,脐带绕颈,脐带裤,脐橙

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural nav·vies.British Informal.

    • : an unskilled manual laborer.

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Examples

  • You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even.

  • It is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.

  • Most persons from the navvy to the king feel tired when their days work is finished, but this does not worry them.

  • Jim sat on his horse and Navvy appeared riding up to the hollow, leading the saddle horses.

  • Jim, who always wanted Navvy to be a dead Indian, looked profoundly sorry.