Unemployed
[ʌnɪm'plɒɪd;-em-] or [,ʌnɪm'plɔɪd]
解释:
(adj.) not engaged in a gainful occupation; 'unemployed workers marched on the capital' .
凯瑟琳整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
(a.) Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
爱德华整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Unoccupied, doing nothing, out of employment.[2]. Disused.
埃莉诺手打
解释:
adj. out of work: not put to use or profit.—n. Unemploy′ment.
杰西编辑
例句:
- When the latter was unemployed, he sometimes walked with us to show us the boats and ships, and once or twice he took us for a row. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny--ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Such a merchant would have no occasion to keep any part of his stock by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Very well; but she complains of being unemployed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The merchant in Edinburgh, on the other hand, keeps no money unemployed for answering such occasional demands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- By being obliged to keep so great a sum unemployed, he must sell in a year five hundred pounds worth less goods than he might otherwise have done. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
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