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

• The town remains largely blue-collar, but manufacturing jobs are hard to come by.
  如今镇上的居民仍以蓝领工人为主，但制造业的工作很难找。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• So they are called blue-collar workers.
  因此，他们被称为蓝领工人。
• Blue-collar workers in the United States have also lost out.
  在美国的蓝领工人也失去了很多。
• There are some drawbacks to unions? But they have done a lot of good for blue-collar workers.
  工会是有些缺点，但他们为蓝领工人谋了不少福利。
• This applies to all white-collar employees, and sometimes to blue-collar workers as well.
  这些规定不仅适用于白领阶层，而且有时也适用于蓝领阶层。
• I still think of myself as a blue-collar worker.
  我还是把自己当作一个蓝领工人。