核心畫面

Picture a person identified by the work they do rather than by anything else about them. Depending on what you put next to the word, that same person can be named by their trade, by their place low down in a company, by how well they work, or counted into one big group of working people.

可以想成:一個人被「他做的工作」定義,而不是被其他身分定義。旁邊擺上不同的字,同一個人就可以被指成不同的東西:他的行更多收起可以想成:一個人被「他做的工作」定義,而不是被其他身分定義。旁邊擺上不同的字,同一個人就可以被指成不同的東西:他的行業、他在公司裡的位置、他做事的樣子,或是被算進「勞動者」這個大群體裡。

From the picture

形容做事的樣子

這次不是在講他的職業,而是在講他工作的方式:前面加上一個形容詞,整組用來評價一個人做事的態度或速度。

hard/fast worker · noun · A2

used after a word like good, hard, fast or slow — as in 'a hard worker' — to say how well or how quickly someone does their work.

(做事)認真的人;手腳快的人

整個勞動階級

鏡頭拉遠:不再是某一個人,而是把全國靠勞力工作的人當成一個整體來談。

working class · noun · B1

the workers = all the people in a country who do hard or physical jobs for their living, spoken about as one big group.

勞工階級;工人們

Also in this word

person who works · noun · A2

someone who does a job, especially a job of one particular kind.

工作者;工人

employee · noun · A2

someone who works in a company or organization and is not one of the people in charge.

員工;基層員工

原始詞典資料4 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。

workernoun/ˈwɜː.kə/

  • 1

    One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.

    • Near-synonym: employee
    • Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
  • 2

    A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

  • 3

    rareA nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.

  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsA thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.

    • This FTP client spawns a separate worker for each file to be uploaded.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。