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laborer
🇺🇸 /lˈeɪbɚɚ/
laborer 指靠体力劳动谋生的工人,常用于建筑、农场等需要实际劳作的工作场景。
💡 记忆钩子
把 laborer 想成“用劳动换取收入的人”:核心是亲自干活,尤其让人联想到建筑工地、农场等体力劳动岗位。
📖 中文释义
noun
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core 体力劳动者📖 指亲自从事体力劳动、靠劳动挣钱的人,通常是建筑工地、农场或其他需要实际干活的岗位上的工人。💡 常用句型为“a laborer works on/in 某地”或“hire laborers to do 某事”。它强调工作性质是体力劳动,不一定表示临时工,也不等于所有类型的员工;说办公室职员或专业人士时通常不用这个词。USThe laborers started work before sunrise.那些体力劳动者在日出前就开始工作了。He worked as a laborer on a construction site.他曾在建筑工地当体力劳动者。
laborers
plural
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 1 组
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
同义词集:
laborer
manual laborer
labourer
jack
上位: working man, working person, workingman, workman
下位: cleaner, digger, dishwasher, dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, fireman, gipsy, gypsy, hand, hired hand, hired man, itinerant, loader, longshoreman, lumper, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, porter, rail-splitter, sawyer, skinner, splitter, stevedore, stoker
🌳 词源
由 labor(劳动)加后缀 -er(表示做某事的人)构成。
English labor
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English laborer
From labor + -er.
🔄 变式
laborers
plural
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