out of work
英 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːk]
美 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːrk]
adj. 失业的; 下岗的
Collins.1
柯林斯词典
- ADJ 失业的；下岗的
Someone who isout of workdoes not have a job.- ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
通常有半数男子失业的城镇 - ...an out of work actor.
没戏演的演员
- ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
英英释义
adj
- not having a job
- idle carpenters
- jobless transients
- many people in the area were out of work
双语例句
- I'm never out of work because I have so many strings to my bow.
我会很多手艺，永远都不会没饭吃。 - He got into the red because he had been out of work for more than two years.
他负了债，因为他失业两年多了。 - This will help you develop a realistic timetable for how long you can afford to be out of work.
这将帮助你产生可承受多长时间失业的一份现实时刻表。 - I can't go on with my study here, my father is out of work now.
我不能在这里继续学习了，我爸爸失业了。 - Young people were several times more likely to be out of work than older members of the workforce
劳动人口中，年轻人失业的可能性是年长者的好几倍。 - Then the depression had thrown almost everybody out of work and the jerry-built houses had been neglected, and as rudolph's mother complained, the entire town had become a single slum.
接着，经济萧条差不多使所有的人都失了业，那些偷工减料盖成的房子也都无人照料；正如鲁道的母亲所抱怨的那样，整个市镇简直成了一个贫民窟。 - Idle carpenters; jobless transients; many people in the area were out of work.
闲着的木匠；失业的瞬时现象；这个地区的许多人都失业了。 - If new technologies reduced the total number of jobs, we would all be out of work by now.
如果新技术减少了工作岗位总数，那么我们大家现在肯定都已经失业了。 - Why were you out of work for so long?
你为什么这么久没有工作呢？ - It was really bad luck on Bob. He had been out of work for over a year.
鲍勃真是交了厄运，他失业已有一年多了。