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

• White-collar jobs should be valued more than blue-collar jobs.
  白领的工作应比蓝领的更受人尊重。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In its heyday, unionised manufacturing supported a US blue-collar middle class with good wages and welfare benefits.
  在通用汽车全盛时期，工会化的制造业为美国蓝领中产阶级提供了优厚的薪酬和福利待遇。
• 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。
• One study, of blue-collar women workers, showed that daily consumption of bananas reduced their incidence of illness, while improving morale, attentiveness and energy levels.
  一组针对蓝领女工的研究表明，每天食用香蕉不仅可以降低她们的患病率，且可提高她们的斗志、注意力和活力。
• Nowadays they are largely blue-collar workers;
  他们现在大多还只能说是蓝领工人；
• 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。