| 词汇 | navvy |
| 释义 | navvy noun[ C ] UKold-fashionedinformaluk /ˈnæv.i/ us /ˈnæv.i/ a man who is employed to do unskilled physical work, usually building or making roads（通常指建筑或道路工程中的）苦工，干粗活的工人 Building: construction work & workers banksman blaster break groundidiom brick brick something up drainer electrician erection erector flip reconstruction reface refurb refurbish refurbished tanking thatcher tiler well built workman Examples of navvynavvy Evidently the fact that navvies tended to move around the country in all-male bands was one of the major causes of concern. Not surprisingly, therefore, given their unruly reputation, newspapers and periodicals were quick to seize upon examples of navvy loyalty wherever and whenever they occurred. Modern traces of these traditions haunted the tunnel even after it was completed, if with less foundation than for the navvies. The press of the day gave glowing accounts of the navvies' achievements. However, most contemporary accounts of navvies tended to stigmatize them as an insubordinate, unruly, and ungovernable class of men. It may be noted that the railways were more pervasive than the canals, the construction of which had also of course involved large numbers of navvies. For it does not matter if the promotion under consideration is to being foreman of a gang of navvies or to managing director of a large corporation. There is, moreover, little or no visual communication among them; even the navvies are apparently separate from one another while being engaged in the same task. It would mean that navvies would be required to dig trenches, and workmen to erect lines and factories, to make plant, instruments, wires and cables. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of this work will be unskilled navvy work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not a fact that the very hard work is done by mechanical navvies instead of ordinary labour? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be a large number of men who subsequently become navvies who have to do something as boys? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are the thousands of navvies excluded, seeing the disgraceful conditions in which they are housed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yet when you put the unskilled men to do the navvy's work you displace the skilled navvy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Owing to the navvies and transport strikes the application for an extension of time is now being considered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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