out of work

英 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːk]

美 [ˌaʊt əv ˈwɜːrk]

adj.  失业的; 下岗的

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柯林斯词典

• ADJ 失业的；下岗的
  Someone who isout of workdoes not have a job.
  1. ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
     通常有半数男子失业的城镇
  2. ...an out of work actor.
     没戏演的演员

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:idlejobless

双语例句

• So these young people ( today) aren't only out of work, you know.
  所以，今天这些年轻人不是仅仅失业，你知道。
• He opened a small shop of his own after he was out of work.
  他失业后，自己开了一个小商店。
• Some of us have been out of work for years.
  我们中有些人已经失业好几年了。
• He was out of work owing to a physical injury
  他因为受伤而失业了。
• This will help you develop a realistic timetable for how long you can afford to be out of work.
  这将帮助你产生可承受多长时间失业的一份现实时刻表。
• Economic recession had thrown millions out of work
  经济衰退导致数百万人失业。
• He has recently been out of work, so he wants to find something to do.
  他近来没事儿，想找点儿事情做。
• He has been out of work since he was graduated from the middle school.
  他自从中学毕业以后，他就失业了。
• If new technologies reduced the total number of jobs, we would all be out of work by now.
  如果新技术减少了工作岗位总数，那么我们大家现在肯定都已经失业了。
• He got into the red because he had been out of work for more than two years.
  他负了债，因为他失业两年多了。