这四个词(组)都可表示“工人”。它们的区别是:
worker用义最广,指“工人”最常用,但也指从事某种工作的人; workman指工匠和一般挣工资的人; working man指工人通常较为狭义,但也包括在工厂或别处干技术性或非技术性体力劳动的人; labour仅指干非技术性、重体力劳动的工人。例如:
Some workmen have restored and refinished her parquet floor.几个工匠已把她的镶木地板重新铺好,装修一新。
The average working man has only a limited saving power.普通工人储蓄的能力有限。
He is an agricultural labour.他是一个农场工人。
这些名词都含有“工人,劳动者”之意。
worker最常用词,泛指一切从事体力或脑力劳动以谋生的人。
workman指雇佣工作,尤指有特种技能的工人。
labourer多指体力劳动者,尤指无专长或专门技能的工人。
But when workman saw the top line of clear writing, he called Rimmer over right away.
但是当他看到第一行清晰的文字时, 他马上把李默叫了过来.
来源:网络文摘精选The workman and his wife country are busy digging to make bricks of the kiln.
西乡来的工人和他的妻子正忙着替砖窖挖土.
来源:网络文摘精选The dispute was touched off by the dismissal of a workman for insubordination.
这次争端是由解雇一名不服从命令的工人引起的.
来源:《简明英汉词典》The workman went from town to town, working when he could find employment.
那个工人从一个城镇流浪到另一个城镇, 找到职业时就干点活.
来源:《用法词典》Workman, felling wood side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a pool.
一个工人在河边砍木头, 他的斧头偶然掉落在河里去了.
来源:网络文摘精选The workman riddled the cinders ( through a sieve ) to get out the larger pieces.
工人筛 煤渣,把大块筛出来.
来源:词典精选例句A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter.
一名工人被警用直升机从着火电站的屋顶上救了出来。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》All night he heard the subterranean workman, who continued to mine his way.
他整夜都听着那个隐蔽的工作者, 那个人在继续他的挖掘工程.
来源:网络文摘精选The workman told him to do as he pleased and the policeman telephoned for help.
工人们告诉警察他想怎样就怎样,于是警察电话请求支援.
来源:网络文摘精选Hundreds of flies buzz around us, and the workman keeps swatting them.
数百只苍蝇围着我们转,工作人员不停地拍打。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The youthful workman, his face white, his body visibly trembling, had already hurried to comply.
那个青年工人脸色煞白, 身子看得出在发抖, 已经赶紧照办了.
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