核心畫面

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.

labouring 是 labour 的 -ing 形,可以想成一張「身體在出力」的定格照片:有人在扛、在挖、在搬、更多收起labouring 是 labour 的 -ing 形,可以想成一張「身體在出力」的定格照片:有人在扛、在挖、在搬、在卸貨,一小時接一小時。這一頁上的每個用法,都可以想成把這張照片指向不同的地方。指向一份工作,就是 a labouring job;讓它自己站著,就是這件工作本身;在舊式的文章裡指向一整群人,就成了 the labouring classes。

Two branches

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)

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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

  • 1

    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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。