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unemployed

英 [ʌnɪm'plɒɪd; -em-] 美[,ʌnɪm'plɔɪd]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词jobless of unoccupied work out idle

adj. 失业的；未被利用的

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名词: the unemployed;

英英释意

1. not engaged in a gainful occupation;: "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

英文词源

unemployed (adj.): 1600, "at leisure, not occupied," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of employ (v.). Meaning "temporarily out of work" is from 1660s. The noun meaning "unemployed persons collectively" is from 1782.
No man has hired us
With pocketed hands
And lowered faces
We stand about in open places
And shiver in unlit rooms ...

[T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from the Rock"]

考试真题

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed

The Unemployed Man and His Family, described a family in which the husband initially reacted to losing his job "with tireless search for work.

I'm speaking to Delroy simmonds, an unemployed Brooklyn man who missed a job interview Tuesday for the best reasons.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Directionally, they capture the trends, but the idea that we know precisely how many are unemployed is a myth.

If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed.

And unemployed workers face difficult odds.

Experts who monitor unemployment statistics here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, say about 28, 000 people are unemployed, and many of them are jobless due to no fault of their own.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

He thinks the best way to help the long-term unemployed is to allow private citizens to invest in local companies that can create more jobs.

Local director Elizabeth Walsh says they provide training and guidance to help unemployed workers find local job opportunities.

New research says the US recession is now over, but many people remain unemployed.

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of finding a new job.

Middle-aged homemakers, retirees, and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love, anger, and dreams with a psychologist.

Those who had done the most boyhood activities were twice as likely to have warm relations with a wide variety of people, five times as likely to be well paid and 16 times less likely to have been unemployed.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

Even the very phrase “jobseeker’s allowance” is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker” who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job.

Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

Indeed, today unemployed don't seem to be having a great time.

On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

Such visions are based on the downsides of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment.

实用场景例句

How long have you been unemployed?: 你失业多久了？

an unemployed builder: 失业的建筑工人

[复数]a programme to get the long-term unemployed back to work: 协助长期失业者恢复工作的计划

I've joined the ranks of the unemployed (= I've lost my job) .: 我加入了失业者的行列。

The problem is millions of people are unemployed...: 问题是，大批的人都失业了。

This workshop helps young unemployed people in Grimsby...: 该研习班会帮助格里姆斯比的失业青年。

When unemployed, I went to drive a tricycle.: 我失业的时候就去拉三轮车.

There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.: 这个国家现有四百万失业人员.

Many unemployed people welcome the chance to do purposeful work, even if unpaid.: 许多失业的人即使没有报酬也喜欢做有意义的工作.

Once he is unemployed, he is done for.: 他一旦失业就完蛋了.

There is an element of compulsion in the new scheme for the unemployed.: 新的失业方案里有一种强制因素.

Any unemployed person reckons as deserving government help.: 任何一个失业者都被认为应受到政府的帮助.

The unemployed hunger for jobs.: 失业者渴望得到工作.

Unemployed workers have a thin time.: 失业工人难以度日.

A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.: 本地劳动力中有四分之一失业.

Bert was a footloose, unemployed actor.: 伯特是不受雇于任何人的自由演员。

How long have you been unemployed?: 你失业多久了？

Last month, 370,000 Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed.: 上个月，有37万美国人加入了失业者的行列。

The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.: 失业者没法罢工——他们没有这种实力。

One in 10 Californians is unemployed and thousands more live in fear of losing their jobs.: 十分之一的加利福尼亚人没有工作，还有数以千计的人成天提心吊胆地害怕失去工作。

Almost 13 per cent of the working population is already unemployed.: 就业人口中有将近13%已失业。

Unemployed Queenslanders were victims of personal crime twice as often as employed people.: 在昆士兰，失业人群沦为个人犯罪受害者的可能性比就业人群高一倍。

The longer people have been unemployed, the harder it is for them to compete in the labour market.: 失业时间越长，就越难在劳动力市场与别人竞争。

This workshop helps young unemployed people in Grimsby.: 该研习班会帮助格里姆斯比的失业青年。

There is already an element of compulsion in existing government schemes for the unemployed.: 政府现行的失业方案已经有点强制的意味了。

The number of unemployed people in Poland has grown by more than a quarter in the last month.: 上个月，波兰的失业人数增长超过了1/4。

Public expenditure was being stretched to the limit by having to support 3 million unemployed people.: 因为要救济300万失业人口，公共支出即将被耗尽。

Her husband is unemployed and the family depends on charity.: 她丈夫失业了，全家人靠救济金过日子。