navvy

单词navvy

基本解释

n.: 壮工；苦力；（尤指）筑路工
v.: 做(开河,筑路的)工人；掘(地)
网络: 挖土机；挖土工；苦工

权威解释

• 壮工；苦力；（尤指）筑路工:

  a person employed to do hard physical work, especially building roads, etc.

英汉解释

• 掘(地)

• 做(开河、筑路的)工人

• 普通工

• 杂工

• 挖掘机

• 挖土工人

• 挖土机;挖泥机

• 掘土机;挖泥机

• 〔英国〕(开挖运河、修筑铁路等的)工人;壮工

词性分析

• 复数：navvies

• 现在分词：navvying

• 过去分词：navvied

同义词

n.manual workerlabourerlaborerworkerhand

例句

• Since the storm was drawing near, the navvy decided to call it a day.

  由于暴风雨即将来临，那个挖土小工决定收工。

• He had done a few days navvy work when he could get it, and he had run around the Domain in the early mornings to get his legs in shape.

  他有时能找到几天卖苦力的差使干干。每天早晨他都要沿着都门公园跑上几圈，活动活动腿脚。

• He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and his broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that.

  除了做苦工之外，别的他也干不了，即使这样，他的伤鼻子和肿耳朵还总是碍事。

• the navvy shouts . we are the boys . of wexford.

  大声喊我们是韦克斯福德的男子汉。

• 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。

• the navvy belching . where s the bloody house

  打嗝那家该死的小店儿在哪儿？

• bloom points to the navvy . a spy

  指着壮工一个奸细。