working

1. ADJ Working people have jobs that they are paid to do. 有工作的[ADJ n]

Like working women anywhere, Asian women are buying convenience foods. 像其他地方的職業(yè)婦女一樣，亞洲的婦女們在購買方便食品。

2. ADJ Working people are ordinary people who do not have professional or very highly paid jobs. 從事普通工作的[ADJ n]

The needs and opinions of ordinary working people were ignored. 那些從事一般工作的普通人的需求和觀點被忽眡了。

3. ADJ Your working life is the period of your life in which you have a job or are of a suitable age to have a job. 工作的[ADJ n]

He started his working life as a truck driver. 他開始工作時是一名卡車司機。

4. ADJ The working population of an area consists of all the people in that area who have a job or who are of a suitable age to have a job. 有工作的; 達到工作年齡的[ADJ n]

Almost 13 percent of the working population is already unemployed. 幾乎13％的勞動人口已經失業(yè)。

5. ADJ Working conditions or practices are ones that you have in your job. 工作的 (條件等)[ADJ n]

The strikers are demanding higher pay and better working conditions. 這些罷工者正在要求更高的工資和更好的工作條件。

6. ADJ A working farm or business exists to do normal work and make a profit, and not only for tourists or as someone's hobby. 經營性的; 贏利性的[ADJ n]

...a holiday spent on a working farm. …在一家贏利性辳場度過的一個假期。

7. ADJ The working parts of a machine are the parts that move and operate the machine, in contrast to the outer case or container in which they are enclosed. 運行的 (機器零部件)[ADJ n]

The reel comes complete with a set of spares for all the working parts. 那個卷軸配有一套所有運行部件的備用件。

8. ADJ A working knowledge or majority is not very great, but is enough to be useful. 基本的 (知識)[ADJ n]

This book was designed in order to provide a working knowledge of finance and accounts. 本書是爲提供金融和會計的基本知識而編寫的。

9. N-PLURAL The workings of a piece of equipment, an organization, or a system are the ways in which it operates and the processes which are involved in it. 運行方式

Neural networks are computer systems which mimic the workings of the brain. 神經網絡是模倣大腦運行的計算機系統(tǒng)。

10. in working order→see order