laborers
laborers — 名詞
- laborerssingular
- laborersesplural
1. people who earn their living by doing physical work that requires strength and e
勞工；工人
靠體力工作的人
people who earn their living by doing physical work that requires strength and endurance rather than specialized training or education — for example, workers on building sites, farms, or in factories who dig, lift, carry, or operate simple tools.
Javier was one of twelve laborers who poured concrete for the new school foundation.
Javier 是負責澆灌新學校地基水泥的十二名勞工之一。
countable: a laborer / twelve laborers
The fruit farm hired thirty seasonal laborers to pick peaches during the summer harvest.
這座果園僱用了三十名季節性勞工，在夏季採收桃子。
collocation: seasonal laborers
A group of laborers cleared the rubble from the collapsed warehouse in just two days.
一組工人只花兩天就清除了倒塌倉庫的瓦礫。
Many laborers in the city work on short-term contracts without health insurance.
城市裡許多工人簽的是短期合約，沒有健康保險。
collocation: short-term contracts
The road crew consisted of eight laborers and two machine operators with excavators.
這支築路隊由八名工人和兩名挖掘機操作員組成。
- skilled laborers
- unskilled laborers
- migrant laborers
- seasonal laborers
- construction laborers
- farm laborers
- hired laborers
- low-paid laborers
- workers
broader term — includes any employed person, not only those doing physical tasks
- manual workers
more formal and descriptive; emphasizes physical rather than intellectual work
- handymen
implies skill at a variety of small repairs rather than heavy physical labor
- employees
focuses on the employer-employee relationship; does not specify the type of work
- professionals
people in jobs requiring advanced education (doctors, lawyers, engineers)
- employers
people who hire and pay laborers rather than doing the physical work themselves
文法句型
laborers + verb (plural)
quantifier + laborers
用法筆記
Frequently modified by a noun describing the type of work (construction laborers, farm laborers, factory laborers). The singular 'laborer' is also common; the plural is often used to describe a group of workers as a category.