underemployed

adj.

1. 未充分就业的（指就业不足、没有足够的工作可做，或所做的工作未能充分发挥技能）
   not having enough work to do; not having work that makes full use of your skills and abilities

1. ADJ （人）未尽其才的，大材小用的
   If someone is underemployed, they have not got enough work to do, or their work does not make full use of their skills or abilities.
   1. He was underemployed and not satisfied with his work.
      他的才干得不到充分施展，因此他不满意自己的工作。

1. He was underemployed and not satisfied with his work.
   他的才干得不到充分施展，因此他不满意自己的工作。
2. As far as we can determine, the group, to date, is largely made up of the left of the left wing, youth, and those underemployed.
   但就我们看来，可以确定的是，到目前为止，抗议活动的主要参与者是左翼中的左翼，年轻人和失业者。
3. They are 8.2 times more likely than average to be underemployed.
   这个专业的失业几率是平均水平的8.2倍。
4. People, after all, have more of it: One worker in six is either unemployed or underemployed, and those still in jobs are working fewer hours, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
   毕竟，人有的是时间：据美国劳工统计局（BureauofLaborStatistics）的数据，每六个工人中就有一个失业或是没有充分就业，那些还在上班的人工作时间也在减少。
5. Readers, are you noticing more out-of-work or underemployed men taking an active role in school and childcare ″ or are you one of them yourself?
   读者们，你们是否注意到现在有更多失业或不充分就业的男人们更为积极地参与到学校以及照看孩子中去呢，或者你就是他们当中的一员？
6. One out of two college graduates are jobless or are underemployed in low-wage jobs that require minimal skills, according to government data.
   根据政府发布的数据来看，两个大学毕业生中就有一个要么找不到工作，要么干一些技术含量很低、薪水又少的工作。
7. Such services promise great efficiencies; idle resources can be harnessed more easily, whether they are empty bedrooms or the working hours of the underemployed.
   这样的服务有望带来效率的极大提高；闲置资源可以被更容易地利用起来，无论这资源是空置的卧室还是未得到充分就业的人们的工作时间。
8. It was a win that defied predictions that Mr Obama would fall victim to the sluggish economy, with 23m Americans are out of work or underemployed, and polls suggesting a lack of confidence in his leadership.
   这场胜利也击破了此前的一种预测，即奥巴马将成为经济疲软的牺牲品。目前有2300万美国人失业或未充分就业，民调也显示民众对奥巴马的领导缺乏信心。
9. It makes sense to accelerate infrastructure spending during a downturn, when capital and labor are underemployed, says David Dollar, the former country director in China for the World Bank and now at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
   在经济衰退，资金和劳动力利用不充分时，加快基础设施方面的支出合情合理，目前供职于华盛顿布鲁金斯学会（BrookingsInstitution）的世界银行（worldbank）前中国局局长杜大伟（DavidDollar）说。
10. Others ( especially on weekdays) are often too inebriated to safely travel to their homes, or too embarrassed to face their spouses when they are unemployed or underemployed.
    有些时候（尤其是工作日期间），有些喝醉了不能平安回家、或是因为失业或降职而不好意思回家面对另一半的人们也会光顾“胶囊旅馆”。
11. Adults with autism tend to be underemployed because they often face challenges with social interaction.
    成年自闭症患者就业很困难，原因是他们往往在社交方面存在障碍。
12. We still have one-in-six Americans either unemployed or underemployed.
    我们还有六分之一的美国人失业或未充分就业。
13. A broader gauge, which includes those who have given up searching for a job and involuntary part-time workers, suggests more than one in six workers is underemployed.
    更广义的指标，包括那些放弃寻找工作而非自愿从事兼职工作的工人，显示六个人中就有一个半人失业。
14. The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed.
    美国经济仍深陷困境，每六个劳工就有一个失业或未充分就业。
15. If they could sell their land, tens of millions of underemployed farmers might find productive work.
    如果那些农民能够买卖耕地，百万计的农民可能会找到新的生产性的工作。
16. Christian Lacroix is currently underemployed since the house he nurtured for two decades no longer makes clothes.
    自克里斯汀·拉克鲁瓦苦心经营了20年的品牌不再制作衣服后，目前他就一直被大材小用。
17. As the mid-term election looms, a staggering number of Americans remain unemployed or underemployed.
    中期选举将近，可失业和未充分就业的美国人仍数目惊人。
18. Officials and businessmen argue that the factories will industrialize the countryside and provide much-needed jobs in rural areas, where millions of people are unemployed or underemployed.
    政界和商界领袖说，建厂可以实现乡村工业化，并带来就业机会。这里现在有上百万的人处于失业或者不完全就业状态。
19. This was also the age when development economists hypothesized that developing countries would "take off" once they received capital to combine with underemployed labor.
    也是在这个年代中，发展经济学家做出了这样的假设，即发展中国家一旦得到资本并使其与未充分就业的劳动力结合起来就能实现“起飞”。
20. Able people are kept underemployed.
    能干的人没被充分利用。
21. He was the man who knew what underemployed peasants, underpaid workers, and sullen soldiery did about sex and drink and drugs.
    他十分熟悉那些时常没有活计的农民、那些收入低微的工人和潦倒的士兵，了解他们嫖女人、酗酒和吸毒的情况。
22. They may also be described as underemployed or freelance workers.
    ta们有时也被称为失业人员或者自由职业者。
23. A more dramatic hypothesis for the spy scandals is that Germany's cold war divide has left it with thousands of underemployed detectives well schooled in the black arts.
    有关间谍丑闻一个更戏剧性的假设是，德国冷战时的分裂，为其留下了数千名大材小用的侦探，他们精通一些歪门邪道。
24. The broader measure of unemployment, the "household index" encompassing people who are unemployed and underemployed, has reached a record 17 per cent.
    衡量失业率的广义指标“家庭指标”（包括失业者和学非所用者）达到创纪录的17%。
25. For China to sustain its impressive growth rate and reduce inequalities, getting the many tens of millions of underemployed peasants off the land and into wealth-creating jobs is essential.
    中国要维持其引人注目的经济增长率并缩小不平等差距，关键就是要让农民脱离土地，进入到创造财富的工作岗位。
26. The economic nightmare of an India of underemployed farm labourers spending their meagre earnings on imported Chinese goods;
    二是经济厄运，即印度大量闲置的农村劳动力花着微薄的收入去购买由中国进口商品；
27. Migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed; able people are kept underemployed.
    移民很可能穷困而且就业不足；有能力的人都被大材小用。
28. One out of six Americans is unemployed or underemployed.
    目前六个美国人中，就有一个失业或没有充分就业。

adj

1. employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills
   1. migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed
   2. able people are kept underemployed