| 英语单词 | jobless |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['dʒɒbləs] 美 ['dʒɑːbləs] |
| 中文释义 | adj.失业的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Nearly 1 million are estimated to be jobless. (2) Others fear that the newly jobless will turn criminal. (3) Jobless and penniless, Tom had to sleep rough in the fields for several months. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 估计有将近100 万人失业。 (2) 其他一些人则担心新近失业者会走上犯罪的道路。 (3) 汤姆没有工作,身无分文,不得不在野外露宿了几个月。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you're jobless, you don't currently have a job. If you quit your early morning job at the donut shop, you'll be able to sleep late again, but you'll be jobless. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The word jobless can be substituted for unemployed. Life can be difficult in a city with a large number of jobless people, and it's especially hard for an older worker to suddenly find herself jobless. The word dates from the early 20th century, and the job at the heart of it comes from the phrase jobbe of worke, or "piece of work," possibly related to gob, "mass or lump." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]失业的;无工作的 Someone who is jobless does not have a job, although they would like one. [
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