slave labour

noun

1. 奴隶劳动；干苦役的奴隶
   work that is done by slaves ; the slaves who do the work
   1. Huge palaces were built by slave labour.
      宏伟的宫殿是奴隶建成的。
2. 繁重而报酬很低的工作
   work that is very hard and very badly paid
   1. I left because the job was just slave labour.
      我之所以离开是因为那工作简直是奴隶干的。

in AM, use 美国英语用 slave labor


1. N-UNCOUNT 做苦工的奴隶;奴隶干的活;苦役
   Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
   1. The children were used as slave labour in gold mines in the jungle...
      在丛林地带，儿童被用作开采金矿的苦役。
   2. The report alleges that thousands of people have been forced into slave labour by the army.
      该报告宣称，成千上万的人被军队逼迫做苦役。
2. N-UNCOUNT 辛苦但报酬很低的工作;苦工
   If people work very hard for long hours for very little money, you can refer to it as slave labour .
   1. He's been forced into slave labour at burger bars to earn a bit of cash.
      为了挣点钱，他被迫到卖汉堡的小店里做苦工。

1. The children were used as slave labour in gold mines in the jungle
   在丛林地带，儿童被用作开采金矿的苦役。
2. The report alleges that thousands of people have been forced into slave labour by the army.
   该报告宣称，成千上万的人被军队逼迫做苦役。
3. He's been forced into slave labour at burger bars to earn a bit of cash.
   为了挣点钱，他被迫到卖汉堡的小店里做苦工。
4. Typing at that salary is slave labour.
   干薪金那么低的打字工作等于做苦工。
5. The construction businesses in the area were deathly afraid of Norton's Inside-Out programme, because prison labour is slave labour, and you can't compete with that.
   由于监狱囚犯是廉价奴工，你根本没有办法和他们竞争，所以建筑业全都怕极了诺顿的外役监计划。
6. Newly elected president, Michael Sata, campaigned partly on an anti-China platform, accusing Chinese companies of using slave labour.
   新当选的赞比亚总统迈克尔萨塔（MichaelSata）在一定程度上是站在一个反中国的平台上参加竞选的，他批评中国企业使用奴隶劳动力。
7. The first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in Cuba in1847 to work as labourers in the sugar plantations, thus replacing the African slave labour force.
   中国第一批移民在1847年到达古巴的岛屿，在那里他们作为糖料种植场的劳工取代了原来的非洲奴隶。
8. Many Chinese companies paid "slave wages", he said, and routinely ignored safety regulations and labour laws.
   他说，许多中国企业支付“奴隶般的工资”，并经常忽视安全法规和劳工法律。
9. China should have thought of that before pimping out their citizens as slave labour for the Waltons.
   在盲目鼓动他们的民众为沃尔顿像奴隶一样卖苦力之前，中国应该早就要想到那个。
10. They replaced slave labour with machines.
    他们用机器代替奴工。
11. Such an agreement would also permit those willing to move towards free trade to tackle some other knotty issues such as investment, competition policy and certain minimum labour standards ( that is, a ban on goods made with slave or forced labour).
    此类协议还将使那些愿意朝着自由贸易努力的国家，得以处理一些诸如投资、竞争政策和某些最低劳动标准（例如，对奴隶或强制劳工生产商品的禁令）等其它方面的棘手问题。
12. The pyramids were mostly built by slave labour.
    金字塔主要是由干苦活的奴隶建造的。
13. The plutocrats and masters of the universe who manage the global casino banking and transnational companies found in Asia a vast source of slave labour and no regulation whatsoever.
    这些财阀和世界经济大鳄掌控全球赌场，操控银行和跨国公司在亚洲进行奴役劳动和非法行径取得巨大财富。
14. I'm still amazed that people pay good money to yoke themselves to machines associated with slave labour.
    我到现在都很惊讶，人们为什么要掏那么多的钱，然后把自己像套轭似地拴在那些像是奴隶工人用的机器上。
15. I'm not working there any more-it's just slave labour.
    我已经不在那里工作了那简直是苦役。