coolies
英 [ˈkuːliz]
美 [ˈkuliz]
n. 苦力(含冒犯意，指东方国家里没有专门技能或未受过训练的工人)
coolie的复数
双语例句
- In those early pioneering days, much of port activities relied on Chinese migrant coolies to do the heavy manual work.
在最初开拓的岁月里，很多港口作业都是靠那些从中国移居到当地的苦力用繁重的体力劳动来完成的。 - This golden goose was in fact fed by the flesh and blood of innumerable Chinese coolies.
这棵摇钱树是用数不清的中华劳工的血肉浇灌出来的。 - "Impressment" refers to feudal officials forcing civilians to serve as coolies.
封建官府拉丁其实就是抓人去做苦力！ - But the most agonising song is the song of the coolies who bring the great bales from the junk up the steep steps to the town wall.
然而最令人难受的却是苦力的歌，他们背负着船上卸下的大包，沿着陡坡爬上城墙。 - One day four coolies came with a huge sea turtle for sale.
一天，四个苦力抬来一只巨大的海龟出售。 - On one dock, where a ship from the Philippines was pulling in, coolies fought among themselves for space. The two boys grappled with each other.
一个船坞上，一艘来自菲律宾的船正在进港，苦力们为争得一块立足之地互相扭打。那两个男孩互相揪打[扭打在一起]。 - In the film we saw a long line of coolies bent almost double under heavy loads.
在影片中我们看到一长行码头工人背着沉重的货物，身子弯得几乎贴近肚子。 - In a sense, they are coolies who are bridging the world and building up another Tower of Babel.
他们是劳工，打造着世界沟通的桥梁，建立起另一座通天巴别塔。 - In the first world war, the British forces in Africa represented a racial mixture, with the whites often referring contemptuously to their Indian colleagues as "coolies".
第一次世界大战期间，非洲的英军由不同种族组成，白人往往讥其印度裔同袍为「小工」。 - Coolies and farm labourers have disappeared;
苦力和雇农已经不存在了； - The turtle was so huge that it took four coolies to bring it in, but when Tang happened to move it the next morning, he found it was so light that he could carry it himself.
那只海龟大得需要四个苦力才能抬动，可是第二天早上，当唐易安碰巧要挪动它，他发现海龟很轻，只要自己一个人就可以带走。