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词汇 roustabout
释义 roustabout
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˈraʊst.ə.baʊt/ us /ˈraʊst.ə.baʊt/
a person whose job involves heavy unskilled work打杂工,非熟练工,非技术工
See also
rouseaboutAustralian English
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A total of 217 people have gone through the roustabout training programme operated by the offshore petroleum industry training board.
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Sofie tries to leave her fortuneteller life behind by becoming a roustabout.
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An oil field roustabout will also do all things that an oil field pumper would have to do.
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Roustabout is also an official classification of natural gas and oil rig personnel.
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After a few days, these injuries usually became infected, causing one or more of the young roustabouts to visit the company doctor.
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Nowadays the shearing board may be of a curved and/or raised style to save the roustabout extra walking and bending.
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The shearer begins by removing the belly wool, which is separated from the main fleece by a roustabout, while the sheep is still being shorn.
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He worked for a time in the oil fields as a roustabout, then a tool pusher and rig builder.
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He managed to escape two months later by pretending to be a roustabout with a traveling circus.
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The shorn fleece is picked up by the roustabout and cast onto a wool table for skirting, rolling and classing, before being placed in the appropriate wool bin.
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Earlier shed plans often had the catching pen on the opposite side of the release chutes which necessitated shearers crossing the board and paths with the roustabout.
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By contrast, a roustabout would perform general labor, such as loading and unloading cargo from crane baskets and assisting welders, mechanics, electricians and other skilled workers.
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Hammond expanded to 18 cabins by 1930, adding private baths by 1936, apparently against opposition by some long-term customers who were accustomed to privies and bath water delivered by roustabouts.
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