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。
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》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 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.
来源:词典精选例句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》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》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》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.
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