| 词汇 | example_english_able-bodied |
| 释义 | Examples of able-bodiedThese 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. In certain districts, up to 75 per cent of the able-bodied men are migrants working outside the district on a semi-permanent basis. Indicating the able-bodied subject has full use of their limb. For each successive period there were more additional men classed as not able than were classed as able-bodied. Those who were considered able-bodied were to be put to work immediately and those who were not were to be interned in special institutions. Women and particularly those burdened with dependent children were an anomaly within the able-bodied\onable-bodied classification. A growing number of elderly people were submitted to a style of life intended centrally for the able-bodied poor. He favoured a punitive workhouse system to keep the able-bodied male up to the mark. But the figures for those deemed not able-bodied who were relieved in the workhouse are even more interesting. One of the problems facing agriculture in the villages is the migration of some able-bodied men to cities in search of waged work. Each able-bodied adult person has to contribute 20 days of work to the community without any direct payment. They faced higher nutritional stress since the bulk of farming had to be done by a limited number of able-bodied people. When relatives and friends were unable to give support, indoor relief was required, adapted to their characters and separate to that for the able-bodied. Regulations stated that applicants should be healthy, physically fit, able-bodied, and not shorter than 166 cm (about 5 feet 4 inches). Drawing this line to exclude able-bodied adults further paved the way for the workfarist turn in public assistance. Participants were meeting an unknown researcher - an able-bodied, middle-aged, professional woman - and, perhaps unsurprisingly, they emphasised their competence and active quests for independence. A family with one or more able-bodied, adult sons would have had little economic reason to retain a daughter past customary marriage age. Without workhouse provision for the able-bodied there is 'a manifest hiatus in their system' (1837: 27). The reason for wider seasonal swings in valleys was that the population of able-bodied individuals was less numerous than on watersheds. The workhouse was meant to be a deterrent to the able-bodied. From the perspective of the younger able-bodied person a decline in functional ability may be seen as a reduction in quality of life. 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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