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英语单词 jobless
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
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[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.
  [the N]
  • One in four people are now jobless in inner areas like Tottenham and Peckham.

    像托特纳姆和佩卡姆这样的内陆地区失业人口达1/4。

  • ...the number of jobless people.

    失业人数

  • The jobless are people who are jobless.失业者
    • They joined the ranks of the jobless.

      他们加入了失业者的行列。

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  • Concern over the rising level of joblessness was a feature of yesterday's debate.

    昨天的争论体现了对失业率上升的关注。

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