jobless

英 [ˈdʒɒbləs]

美 [ˈdʒɑːbləs]

adj.  无工作的; 失业的; 失业者

经济

Collins.2 / BNC.12942 / COCA.14636

牛津词典

adj.

• 无工作的；失业的
  without a job
  1. The closure left 500 people jobless.
     这次倒闭使500人失业。
• 失业者
  people who are unemployed

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 失业的；无工作的
  Someone who isjoblessdoes not have a job, although they would like one.
  1. 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。
  2. ...the number of jobless people.
     失业人数
  3. The joblessare people who are jobless.
     失业者
  4. They joined the ranks of the jobless.
     他们加入了失业者的行列。

英英释义

adj

• not having a job
  1. idle carpenters
  2. jobless transients
  3. many people in the area were out of work
  Synonym:idleout of work

双语例句

• The report found that poor work attitudes among the long-term jobless were the major barrier to tackling unemployment.
  史密斯希望“给英国的年轻人一个机会，不要依赖外来劳动力”。报告发现，在那些长期失业的人群中，恶劣的工作态度是他们解决失业问题的主要障碍。
• Some indirect costs of unemployment, though, seem to be amplified when the jobless are young.
  然而，失业造成的一些间接成本，貌似因为是青年失业而有所扩大。
• Well, guess what? I saw my jobless@ friend@ on Tuesday.
  对了，你猜怎么着？星期二我看到那位失业的朋友了。
• The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
  10个月来失业率的首次上升逆转了比利时失业率持续下降的趋势。
• In industrial countries, economic and political shocks affect jobless rates.
  在工业化国家，经济及政治动会影响失业率。
• Even jobless citizens in Beijing will enjoy health insurance starting this month.
  北京失业者将从本月起享有医疗保险。
• This morning's new jobless numbers are a little worse than expected.
  今天早上，新失业人数比预期稍差。
• In July Belgium's jobless rate was unchanged at 8.2% of the workforce.
  7月份，比利时的失业率没有发生变化，仍占劳动人口的8.2%。
• So the combination of millions of low-status jobless migrant labourers and unemployed graduates could form a highly combustible mix.
  因此数百万地位低下的无业民工和失业大学毕业生的结合，可能形成社会中的高度不稳定因素。
• Large numbers of highly educated, jobless graduates in huge debt from student loans could cause trouble.
  大量受过高等教育的没有工作的毕业生还欠有高额学生贷款，这可能引起一些社会问题。