blue-collar
英 [ˌbluː ˈkɒlə(r)]
美 [ˌbluː ˈkɑːlər]
adj. 从事体力劳动的; 蓝领的
牛津词典
adj.
- 从事体力劳动的；蓝领的
connected with people who do physical work in industry- blue-collar workers/voters/votes
蓝领工人 / 选民 / 选票
- blue-collar workers/voters/votes
柯林斯词典
- ADJ 蓝领的；从事体力劳动的
Blue-collarworkers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.- By 1925, blue-collar workers in manufacturing industry had become the largest occupational group.
到1925年，制造业的蓝领工人已成为最大的职业群体。
- By 1925, blue-collar workers in manufacturing industry had become the largest occupational group.
双语例句
- Companies often cite a paucity of domestic blue-collar workers as a barrier.
台湾企业常常说，本地蓝领工人不足是妨碍他们在台湾投资的一个因素。 - The town remains largely blue-collar, but manufacturing jobs are hard to come by.
如今镇上的居民仍以蓝领工人为主，但制造业的工作很难找。 - Blue-collar workers in the United States have also lost out.
在美国的蓝领工人也失去了很多。 - It is not clear how many of those white, blue-collar voters he will persuade to back Mr Obama.
现在还不清楚到底他会说服多少白人蓝领选民支持奥巴马。 - Nowadays they are largely blue-collar workers;
他们现在大多还只能说是蓝领工人； - It's not only blue-collar workers who are feeling the greatest anguish.
不止是蓝领工人感到这巨大的痛苦。 - In a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, an old school has been converted into a dormitory for 88 students from China.
在底特律一个蓝领聚居的郊区，人们将一所老学校改造成了宿舍楼，供来自中国的88名学生居住。 - Chan, a 34-year-old high-school dropout, has one of Hong Kong's most vertiginous and challenging blue-collar jobs.
陈，34岁，高中辍学生，是香港最令人眩晕，最具挑战性的蓝领工人之一。 - Many women whose husbands were blue-collar workers had white-collar jobs themselves.
许多丈夫为蓝领劳工的妇女本身却从事白领的工作。 - Job pressures have caused some students to take jobs as technical workers or in other blue-collar occupations, but their parents are seldom happy about it, fearing the children will not be paid well or achieve a high social status.
工作压力已经导致一些学生在技术工人或其他蓝领职业领域参加工作，但他们的父母对此很少开心，担心孩子们会不赚钱或达不到一个高的社会地位。