喜樂美語
  1. 1綠領（對白領、藍領；指環保相關工作，不是穿綠色衣服）

    Green-collar is a way of talking about jobs, not about a shirt. White-collar work is office work. Blue-collar work is work with your hands in a factory, on a farm, or on a building site. Green-collar work is work that tries to help the earth, or at least hurt it as little as it can. A person who puts solar panels on a roof, who looks after a forest, who designs a bus that uses less fuel, or who checks that a factory follows clean-air rules is doing green-collar work. The word is fairly new. You meet it in the news, in government talk, and in job ads more than in everyday chat. People stretch it: almost any job that sounds good for the planet can get the label, even when the work is only a little greener than before. Nobody has to wear green. Though actually, the collar was never a real collar in white-collar or blue-collar either — it is just a handy label for a kind of working life.

From the word’s history

By analogy with white-collar and blue-collar, with green standing for the environment.

仿 white-collar、blue-collar 造的字，green 指環保

Wiktionary

組成Built like white-collar and blue-collar. Collar here stands for a kind of job, not a real collar. Green stands for the environment.

同家族的字

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

green-collaradj

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.

    • 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green Collar Revolution”, in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134,
    • 1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26, The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs.
  • 2

    Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.

    • 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32, American [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's "green-collar" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]
    • Blue-collar 29.7 33.5 Green-collar 21.2 10.0 White-collar 25.0 31.7 Grey-collar 24.0 24.8

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