音标与读法

这里为大家介绍下navvy 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

名词复数:navvies

中英文翻译

n.

1.〔英国〕(开挖运河、修筑铁路等的)工人；壮工。

2.掘土机；挖泥机。

3.〔海俚〕＝navigating-officer. a steam navvy 蒸汽掘土机。

短语和例子

work like a navvy 尽力做(讨厌的工作)。 a mere navvys work (不用脑的)粗活。

vi.

做(开河、筑路的)工人。

vt.

掘(地)。

a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

同义词：drudge, peon, galley slave,

Navvy is a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (USA) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever.

例句与用法

1.His proper trade is a navvy .

他本来是个挖土的苦力。

2.The navvy shouts . we are the boys . of wexford

大声喊我们是韦克斯福德的男子汉。

3.The navvy belching . where s the bloody house

打嗝那家该死的小店儿在哪儿？

4.Private carr to the navvy . portobello barracks canteen

对壮工贝洛港营盘70的小卖部。

5.Bloom points to the navvy . a spy

指着壮工一个奸细。

6.The navvy staggering forward cleaves the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding

你也属于那不幸的阶级吧？

7.The navvy gripping the two redcoats , staggers forward with them

拽住两个英国兵，跟他们一道脚步蹒跚地往前走。

8.He catches sight of the navvy lurching through the crowd at the farther side of talbot street

他瞥见壮工在塔尔博街另一头拨开人群穿行。

9.The navvy , swaying , presses a forefinger against a wing of his nose and ejects from the farther nostril a long liquid jet of snot

衣着邋遢的年轻女佣玛丽德里斯科尔走来。

10.Crates lined up on the quayside at jaffa , chap ticking them off in a book , navvies handling them in soiled dungarees

雅法的码头上摆了一溜儿柳条篓，一个小伙子正往本子上登记。身穿肮脏的粗布工作服打赤脚的壮工们在搬运它们。

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