| 单词 | day labourer |
| 例句 | The dimensions of the dish are rooted in the ground itself, the Valencian rice and orange fields where farmers and day labourers sought sustenance as they worked the earth. How paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The permits were limited to day labourers, businesspeople, medical patients and their companions, and aid workers. Israel-Palestinian conflict: Life in the Gaza Strip 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home. Sudan conflict: 'How I saved my red guitar from Khartoum war zone' 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z And her husband's wage as a day labourer wasn't enough to support their family of six. 'Why did you torture me?': A domestic worker's fight for justice 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z "If Assad wanted to help these poor people, then he wouldn't have displaced them to begin with," said Joumaa Ramadan, a day labourer. In war-torn Idlib, Syrians pick up pieces alone after earthquake 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z "All we want to do is leave this country. There is nothing here anymore," said Bilal Hamam, a 42-year-old day labourer at a local cement factory who was not called to work on Monday. Families of migrant boat victims find no closure in crisis-ridden Lebanon 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z To support my husband and my son, I’d walk from Gabriel where I live, all the way to Ayat and work as a day labourer. On the frontline against Covid-19 in Ethiopia – a photo essay 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Adriana Camarena, a lawyer from Mexico City, realised that the undocumented day labourers near her home in San Francisco’s Mission district had few supplies and little access to health information to meet the crisis. 'The way we get through this is together': mutual aid under coronavirus | Rebecca Solnit 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Zabiullah, one of millions of day labourers, returned to a Kabul market with his rusting wheelbarrow. 'I fear hunger - coronavirus won't kill us' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The economic consequences of the coronavirus are damaging everyone, from oil billionaires in the Gulf to day labourers in Egypt. Coronavirus stokes Middle East boiling points 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Still, many residents say it is impossible to stay confined in small rooms, which are sometimes shared by day labourers who work different shifts. Life under lockdown in India's massive Dharavi slum 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The nursing-care firm opened a cafe that encouraged ageing day labourers to swap their usual morning beer for a coffee. Disabled people brew up a storm in Osaka's former slum 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z His father was a day labourer, when he had work. From ball pits to water slides: the designer who changed children’s playgrounds for ever 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Minuteman franchises started to harass day labourers gathered on city street corners far from the border, in places such as Long Island’s East End. How violent American vigilantes at the border led to Trump’s wall 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In many countries, the income of a day labourer or a temporary worker does not amount to the “decent standard of living” that the company says is its goal. Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He works as a day labourer for three days a week at most. Baghdad at 10 million: fragile dreams of normality as megacity status beckons 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “The island is completely administered by the military and the only other people on the island are day labourers,” they said. Footage shows 'prison-like units' built for Rohingya on Bangladesh island 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A laid-off factory worker might lend a hand on the family farm, become a casual day labourer, or sell trinkets on the street. In developing countries, many people cannot afford not to work 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z We had doctors, lawyers, day labourers, jobless, homeless guys even, you know? 'It's in my blood': how rugby managed to unite America's elite 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z According to a food column in the New York Times in 1894, only a “day labourer” should be eating a sandwich made from thick slices of bread and stuffed with hefty chunks of meat. A matter of taste: six remarkable women and the food they ate 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Ibrahim Mohammed, a day labourer living at the landfill whose house was narrowly spared destruction, on Sunday said the disaster happened in “three minutes”. Death toll rises to 65 after rubbish dump landslide in Ethiopia 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Something is happening in Bhaumau - a rural village in India's populous state of Uttar Pradesh where parents spend most of their time working in agriculture and as day labourers. Indian pupils invent their own lessons - BBC News 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z They say the city council has told them there is no money to rehouse them locally, when most make a living within walking distance of their home as security guards, day labourers or recyclers. 'Regeneration should be for all': will change in Johannesburg benefit its poorest residents? 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Others work in agriculture or construction, several thousand as illegal day labourers in Israel. Saer: the cycle of death in Palestinian 'capital of the martyrs' 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “One day labourer said he felt tricked after liking a friend’s rainbow profile picture and later discovering it was for gay marriage.” Pakistan gets flustered over Facebook's gay rights meme 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The greatest loss of life has been among the elderly and the poor, in particular day labourers who have little alternative but to risk their lives in the heat for fear of losing their livelihoods. The heat and the death toll are rising in India. Is this a glimpse of Earth’s future? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Many victims were day labourers, who need to work to eat. India heatwave continues as death toll exceeds 1,000 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Those scraping a living as street vendors, subsistence farmers, day labourers and so on are unlikely to feature. Casting a wide net 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Many work as street traders or day labourers. How Liberia lost its handshake 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Most of the residents are either unemployed or work as day labourers and in recent years it has become home to many paperless Afghan migrants. Breaking bad in Tehran: how Iran got a taste for crystal meth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z They did not wonder why it was that millions of Ukrainian citizens saw no prospects at home and went to other countries to work as day labourers. Putin's full Crimea speech annotated 2014-03-19T17:25:41Z The case was brought by a Mexican tourist stopped outside a church where day labourers were known to congregate and subsequently detained for nine hours, the Arizona Republic reported. Arizona sheriff 'profiled' Hispanics 2013-05-24T23:35:44Z The coaching centre caters to the children of day labourers and farmers. Bangladesh rickshaw puller starts clinic for the poor 2012-06-05T00:37:33Z Instances of Board School boys, and of sons of day labourers who have risen to distinction with the help of the new educational agencies. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z In France I find that the families of day labourers have meat for dinner every day. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z I would like to stress this: it was not some Silicon Valley they fled to, but to become day labourers. Putin's full Crimea speech annotated 2014-03-19T17:25:41Z The family soon removed to West Haven, Vermont, where, all working together, they made a scanty living as day labourers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z At this time Thomas was an odd or day labourer, taking contract jobs on his own account when he could get them, and working for a daily wage when these failed. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Provided they showed ability and industry, the day labourer’s and the artizan’s son were welcomed from the provincial grammar school as warmly at Balliol as the Sixth Form boy from Harrow or Eton. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z But three-fourths of the rural population are merely farm servants or day labourers, and are worse off even than the same class elsewhere. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z It would be obviously absurd, he said, to make a day labourer a bankrupt, and that brought him to the very difficult question of County Court jurisdiction. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z After three years more with the family as a day labourer at West Haven, he succeeded, with his father’s consent, in being apprenticed in the office of The Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vermont. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z There he had begun by working as help to a gold-digger, as a day labourer, in the sweat of his brow. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z No professional visitor to the British Museum sets more systematically to work than our day labourer in the Fulham or Pimlico district. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The people were still loyal to him, to the peasants and day labourers he was always "Our Herr Count." 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Walek Gibała, a day labourer without any land of his own, who was working for wages in the neighbouring village, was hired to cart away the peat. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z We were told that we were no longer allowed to get other persons to supply our places as day labourers. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z When I met him he was working as a day labourer on land elsewhere, earning a small and irregular daily wage. Commonwealth games athletes should turn up after misery endured by locals 2010-09-22T21:56:00Z And yet, I soon noticed that the bulk of the discussion focused on the needs of the Latino community and the problems of farm workers and day labourers – the majority of whom are Latinos. What solidarity means in Michigan 2010-04-20T12:14:00Z The labour market is controlled by the local mafia, called the 'Ndrangheta, which is believed to employ ever growing numbers of illegal seasonal day labourers. 2010-01-10T15:29:00Z The local mafia, called the 'Ndrangheta, controls the labour market which employs ever growing numbers of illegal seasonal day labourers. 2010-01-10T14:04:00Z They are often employed as day labourers picking fruit and vegetables. 2010-01-08T11:05:00Z A day labourer am I, cutting shells for women, with a woman's patience, whose stout arms are ashamed of him when they encounter a piece of marble. Four Phases of Love The compulsion which, for example, it exercised over the city weekly markets, day labourers, and guilds, was only a temporary help for restoring the overflowing stream to its old bed. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. On the other hand, it would be less than the pay of a day labourer, which was probably about 4 obols or 6d. a day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" These high boots are the uncontested right of the upper class of farmers: the peasants and day labourers, even to this day, wear shoes and short leather breeches, or long ones of coarse canvass. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Observe, that eight shillings a week is the wages for a day labourer in the village. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend He had become a day labourer, a fireman on the New York Central road, and he was a first-rate hand. Fairfax and His Pride For three years he worked as a day labourer in New Bedford. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The Aldeburgh folk could not reverence as priest a man they had known as a day labourer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Those of the urban middle classes are shopkeepers and artizans, and those of the lower class are domestics and day labourers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" If they leave the farm for the cities, they will become street-car drivers, porters, janitors, day labourers. The Co-Citizens Not one of them was written for an artist who had been forced by hard luck to turn into a day labourer. Fairfax and His Pride It was hard work, and there is no denying it, just the sort of plain hard work the day labourer does when he digs sewer trenches in the city streets. Gold And the other men, the day labourers, hadn't come yet. Absolution That servant girl, this day labourer, that bedridden invalid, this daughter in her mother’s home, these men and young men in business—all are called, all, all are needed. The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer If Lorraine had not been positive that this was actually a cattle ranch in Idaho, she never would have believed that they were anything but day labourers. Sawtooth Ranch Amnestied in 1755 he returned to France, but soon sank into dire poverty, being forced to earn a pittance for his wife and family as a day labourer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The lower orders of the people, the day labourers and peasants, seemed to live, generally speaking, in a very comfortable manner. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. The persons signified symbolically by Saturn are grandparents, and other old persons, day labourers, paupers, beggars, clowns, husbandmen of the meaner sort, and especially undertakers, sextons, and gravediggers. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy They've just as little spirit or independence as the day labourers. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Father was a day labourer; he had never saved a sixpence. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading And the same distinction must be made between all sorts of trades necessitating apprenticeship, and the simple toil of day labourers. The Conquest of Bread The poorest working class of Manila—fishermen, canoemen, day labourers, etc.—live principally in the ward of Tondo, where dwellings with thatched roofs were allowed to be constructed. The Philippine Islands I have never learned a trade, so I could not be a skilled artisan, and a soldier’s life would suit me better than that of an ordinary day labourer, whose work requires no head-piece. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Formerly the Maoris stalked about with their war clubs over their shoulders; now they work as day labourers in the service of the whites. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Michael Hale was a day labourer, as his father was before him. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The day labourers and serving men were equally tantalized by the remembrance of high wages and cheap living at the beginning of the century. German Culture Past and Present The idea of a day labourer with such hands and feet as that! The Poor Plutocrats The patient made serious objections to me, but permitted the yoke to be adjusted by a day labourer named Harvey Outhouse. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine If you are a hotel proprietor, or a school proprietor, or a day labourer, such weaknesses become a strength, of course, but not otherwise. Certain Personal Matters It became, therefore, the interest of the farmers to dissolve this relation, drive the farm hand from the farm, and transform him into a day labourer. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 During the Tudor period the number of day labourers increased, largely owing to the enclosures having deprived the small holder and commoner of their land and rights. A Short History of English Agriculture "My dear lady," said he, "you eat so little that if I were a day labourer I could easily support you on my wages." The Poor Plutocrats For so academic a man, the strange thing about him was his attitude toward these day labourers; he looked upon them as brothers; not only that, but as older brothers. The Desert Valley His hands were feminine ... but his feet were encased in heavy shoes that made them seem the feet of a six-foot day labourer.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The farm hands have become day labourers almost everywhere, are employed only when needed by the farmers, and, therefore, often have no work for weeks together, especially in winter. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The linendraper looks down on the huckster, the huckster on the mechanic, and the mechanic on the day labourer. Thrift She must see for herself how he had put on his working clothes and gone out as a day labourer as soon as she let him know that such was her wish. The Emperor of Portugalia "But tell me, what the devil is an educated man, of no ordinary intelligence, doing, working as a—as a day labourer?" Là-bas Many emigrated, some worked as day labourers, others were forced into the army, and he, being very old, maintained himself with difficulty by setting up a small school. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium The day labourer is generally hired only for one day. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 The day labourer received what was equivalent to something near twenty shillings a week, the wages at present paid in English colonies; and this is far from being a full account of his advantages. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History He offered, if this were rejected, to abandon his farm, already a hopeless concern, and earn at least bread for his wife and children as a day labourer at home. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters It is said: There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water, scavengers and coalheavers, day labourers and domestic servants, or the work of society will come to a standstill. Critiques and Addresses In other words, it would be "day labourer." Essays of Schopenhauer They had only cups and dishes made of gourds to use and the Raja’s wife and sons had to go and work as day labourers in order to get food to eat. Folklore of the Santal Parganas The work closes earlier, that is, so far as the day labourer is concerned, for he gets the best of this as of other things. Hodge and His Masters "I want," he told the salesman, "something in a rough, coarse, common-looking suit—something such as a day labourer might wear." The Wrong Twin He worked himself as hard as any day labourer to encourage the others, and there was never a man-at-arms or a foot-soldier who did not eagerly follow his example. Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach The common class of day labourers has given us Brindley the engineer, Cook the navigator, and Burns the poet. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance When the time for transplanting the rice came, Dharmu used to plough and dig the ditches and mend the gaps along with the day labourers. Folklore of the Santal Parganas I am scarcely worthy to be called a day labourer in the science. Men of Invention and Industry I know I need not caution you to keep those idle fellows, the day labourers, to it. Anna St. Ives He returned to Helpstone and tried to get employment as a day labourer, but failed; the farmers, who had heard of the publishing project, considering that "he did not know his place." Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" Even in France are to be found day labourers, only the very poorest, however, being without a cottage, plot of ground, a cow and of poultry their own. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne "You don't want us all to live like day labourers." The Woman with the Fan Artists, men of letters, sober tradesmen, artisans, day labourers, students, shop-assistants, and foreigners—dynamiters, adventurers, and waiters waiting for places—may all be found living in one short street. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Here he gained employment for some months as a porter, and, having saved a little money, went up to the neighbourhood of Lake Simcoe, where he became a day labourer. The Englishwoman in America Our land lies half untilled; we cannot pay for the hire of day labourers. Alone Yes, by working and living harder than any day labourer at Stokesley. Modern Broods He answered that he had turned out to be a day labourer, who lived about half a mile off. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 I could certainly get work as a day labourer. Back to Billabong Timar at once made arrangements for hauling up the sacks, and for the immediate drying and grinding of the corn, and all day labourers were at work on the wreck. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction His death is registered as that of a "day labourer." The Life of Captain James Cook Very soon the garments of both were so effectually stained with mud, green mould and water that the two men could hardly have been distinguished from ordinary day labourers, even in broad daylight. The Heart of Rome He has not got a shilling in the world beyond what they pay him as a priest, which I take it amounts to about as much as the wages of a day labourer. The Way We Live Now About noon I contrived to have a damper and a large joint of baked mutton ready for the "day labourers," as they styled themselves. A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 He descended from a peasant family, small land-owners or often simple day labourers. Honore de Balzac Skinner triumphed, and made the great man apologise, writhing all the time, and wishing he was a day labourer with Peggy to wife, and fourteen honest shillings a week for his income. Hard Cash The new securities, which we propose to give to innocence oppressed by power, are common between the premier peer and the humblest day labourer. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The rural day labourer and his wife live on a level surface which is comparatively open to the eye. The Way We Live Now So I am living as a day labourer. The Witch and other stories He knew his clay, the day labourer, with his parrotlike mentality. The Drums of Jeopardy Each morning saw him up with the lark and afield, a day labourer, for as such he had been born. The People of the Abyss Is not his mother with us, and a washerwoman; and was not his father a day labourer at two shillings a day?' and they would laugh me to scorn. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland Her husband was a day labourer, often out of a job—and sometimes he drank. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale |
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