出力氣的工作
最貼近核心畫面的一組:講的就是那份靠身體做的工作。
adjective · B2
Describing work, a job or a life that is made up of hard physical effort, usually outdoors or on a building site, and usually paid by the hour or by the day.
粗重的;做粗工的
Labouring is the -ing form of labour, and you can think of it as a snapshot of a body at work: someone lifting, digging, carrying, loading, hour after hour. Everything on this page is that snapshot pointed somewhere different. Point it at a job and you get a labouring job. Let it stand alone and it names the work itself. Point it at a whole group of people in an older kind of writing and you get the labouring classes.
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出力氣的工作
最貼近核心畫面的一組:講的就是那份靠身體做的工作。
adjective · B2
Describing work, a job or a life that is made up of hard physical effort, usually outdoors or on a building site, and usually paid by the hour or by the day.
粗重的;做粗工的
靠勞動過活的那群人
從「這是什麼工作」跨到「這是靠什麼工作過活的人」,是一種舊時代的分類方式。
adjective · C1
Used in phrases such as the labouring classes, a labouring family or the labouring poor, to talk about people who live by hard physical work and who have little money or power, seen together as a group.
勞動階層的(舊式說法)
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
labouringnoun
The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
labouringadj
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。