名词
码头工人
We've decided to back the Dockers in their fight for higher pay.
我们决定支持码头工人为提高报酬所进行的斗争。
The dockers discharged the cargo from the ship.
码头工人从船上卸货。
The dockers are striking for higher pay.
码头工人正为增加工资而罢工。
The London dockers too followed the lead of the seamen.
伦敦的码头工人也照海员的样子行事。
词组
||1:But perhaps the structural trend means those paid jobs will not become available.||2:If so, the economy may have created a vast reserve labour force, akin to the “spinsters” of early 19th-century Britain—single women who were paid piece rates for spinning textiles at home—or the dockers who used to mass outside port gates in the hope of being selected for a day's work.||3:That would suggest an economy where wages are permanently kept under pressure and where profit margins remain high.||4:Good news for the stockmarket perhaps, but not so good for the self-employed.
||1:但也许这一结构性的趋势意味着全职工作岗位不会出现空缺。||2:如果真的如此，那经济体或许已经制造了大量的劳动力储备，类似于19世纪早期英国的“老姑娘”—单身女人在家进行纺织品制造而获得计件工资---或者是码头工人们拥堵在港口大门处等待被挑选进入工作。||3:这表示经济体当中工资水平长期保持在高度压榨的水平，同时利润空间依然巨大。||4:这对股市来说或许是好消息，但对自我雇佣者来说可就不是那么回事了。
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1.A person employed in a port to load and unload ships.
‘The dockers refused to load the ship and prevented it from sailing.’
‘A powerful half-page photo showed gaunt, desperate-looking London dockers queuing at the dock gate in a dim half-light.’
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|noun|
‘The dockers refused to load the ship and prevented it from sailing.’
