blue-collar

英 [ˌbluː ˈkɒlə(r)]

美 [ˌbluː ˈkɑːlər]

adj.  从事体力劳动的; 蓝领的

BEC

牛津词典

adj.

• 从事体力劳动的；蓝领的
  connected with people who do physical work in industry
  1. blue-collar workers/voters/votes
     蓝领工人 / 选民 / 选票

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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• I still think of myself as a blue-collar worker.
  我还是把自己当作一个蓝领工人。
• 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。
• A squeeze on bank lending has prompted some businesses short of cash to stop paying wages to blue-collar workers.
  银行贷款收紧导致一些现金不足的企业暂停给蓝领工人发工资。
• If you look at job trends over the last 100 years, blue-collar and farming jobs are disappearing, but service industry and white-collar jobs are on a steady and welcome rise.
  如果你看一下在过去一百年的发展趋势，可以发现蓝领和农场工作正在消失，但是服务业和白领工作呈现稳定增长的趋势。
• The solution, then, would simply be to offer more training and education to displaced blue-collar workers.
  那么解决办法不过是向被取代了的蓝领工人提供更多培训和教育。
• 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。
• All the blue-collar workers who worked on the construction site went on strike.
  所有在工地工作的工人参加了罢工。
• Taiwan currently has the same minimum wage for foreign and domestic blue-collar workers, but business groups have been advocating separate wage tracks.
  目前台湾的本地蓝领工人和外籍蓝领工人都适用相同的最低工资标准，但台湾的商业团体一直建议政府让这两个群体分别适用不同的最低工资标准。
• 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。
• The jobs of many blue-collar workers are now done by machines.
  许多蓝领工人的工作现在已由机器替代。