| 词汇 | example_english_collier |
| 释义 | Examples of collierThese 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. References to affrays with poaching colliers frequently appear in the portraits of gamekeepers in this journal. Since the introduction of regulation in 1850, occupational mortality had steadily improved amongst colliers. In the course of this inspection a shaft collapses, trapping him and fourteen colliers. On the contrary, it makes no provision for farmers, colliers, common laborers, carters, and carpenters without whom there would be no commonwealth at all. The specific vulnerability of colliers is certainly not a new phenomenon. Serious incursions from the colliers occurred in 1727, 1731, 1735 and 1738. However, this differential is more pronounced among labourers and colliers, suggesting that, at the lower social levels, harsher conditions preyed more on the vulnerable and sharpened this selective effect. Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat, the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730. The colliers' skill, seniority and, even, knowledge of technical terms are often not transferable from pit to pit, let alone village to village, district to district, or coalfield to coalfield. Furthermore, colliers evidence the greatest mortality differential, a feature which may tend to confirm the hypothesis that, as a group, they suffered the long-term latent penalties of heavy labour. Discharging colliers took up wharfage. The similarities in terms of economic and cultural outlook and behaviour between the colliers and their labouring counterparts demonstrated in the preceding sections inevitably draw attention to issues of class. Weavers had been involved in major disturbances in 1729-30 and 1735, and colliers on a number of occasions following the introduction of turnpikes in 1727. There was apparently little to separate these colliers and their labouring colleagues in terms of the nature, location and meaning of some of the most popular pastimes. In mining areas many miners and colliers worked at the pit head or as time keepers. Table 3 also shows that, relative to colliers, labourers displayed the same lowered levels of mortality for men as for women, in fact a reduction of 3n5-3n6 per cent. I am not in a position to give the information as to the number of colliers who have applied for work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have been in touch with representatives of a large number of coasting colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Coal is dear today because colliers were cheap yesterday. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The collier's cottage has nothing whatever to do with development values. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am perfectly satisfied that the colliers have not got it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should they differentiate between colliers and other working men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the million colliers in this country are being pulled by unknown people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certainly no one suggests one of these huge vessels is to be dispatched for any other purpose than of picking up colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wages of colliers would go down, pits would be closed, wagon building would cease, and shipyards would be cleared away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Also, the frightening by-product of the unmanageable, fast closure of colliers, with all the resulting social problems, would be too awful to contemplate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing could be more helpful both to colliers and the national economy than further sales in this way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a result children were made orphans and well-meaning colliers and their wives undertook to keep them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can he tell us of any colliery scheme, when there was an amalgamation and some colliers were displaced, where compensation was given to the workmen? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember, as a young man, talking with a group of colliers in a village where there was a large burning pit heap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we are under no illusions about it, since, in the past, it has given nothing to the colliers of this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were not only teachers and preachers, but colliers, tin-plate workers, farmers, insurance premium collectors and shopkeepers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regret any attempt to make any distinction between colliers and ex-service men in that way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was one of the best colliers who ever broke a piece of coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want the butcher, the baker, and the bus driver, the lawyer, doctor, teacher and the rest living together, not a separate ghetto for colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The team consisted of 14 colliers and myself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not wealthy men, they are ordinary working colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, the reason was that in that case only poor colliers were concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a very high level of technical ability and the quality of our colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is asking these poor colliers to pay between £800 and £900 per acre for this land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have the best colliers in the world, and some very fine technologists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were old colliers and old quarry men who were injured in industry before 1948 and received no benefits whatsoever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a matter of fact, we do not propose that there should be any favoured classes —neither colliers, nor railwaymen nor university graduates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He waves a finger on the vesting date, over sunstrewn meadows, and colliers come wheeling coal out in barrows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why not apply precisely the same test to the colliers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One important point is that big ships cannot lie aground like small colliers can, but must keep afloat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the case of a strike in which 10,000 colliers come out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The coalfield will be developed, and our colliers at home will suffer in consequence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know one or two colliers in my area who keep ferrets and dogs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of cases of colliers with broken spines who will be lying on their backs for the rest of their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that the new colliers and coastal vessels now taking to the water show great improvement in the crews' quarters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know colliers who did not do a stroke of work for 15 years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was in the village when 419 colliers and miners lost their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that mine is opened and investment is put in it could accommodate a number of colliers who are in areas that are oversubscribed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember a very excellent clergyman who went to put a stop to a prize fight arranged by a party of colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may have been colliers on piece rates or skilled engineers, and they try to do their work for, say, 6, 9 or 12 months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the colliers used to come alongside the ships of the fleet at the same time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He excludes any man who works elsewhere, a fisherman, for instance or—as there are on my estate in scores—colliers who have got small hold ings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One point, which appeals to me particularly, is the disorganisation it has led to in the collier's home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are about 1 million of them—old farm workers, old colliers, workers who have given their working lives to the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know something about the lives of colliers and other working people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The houses were purchased mostly by working colliers, who have paid from £200 to £300 for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are many skilled colliers in the coal mining industry who are earning £20 a week, although they are working very hard for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had the individual daily wages or earnings of over 63,000 piece-work colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The bulk of these people are working colliers, some are children and some are women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were a number of colliers working in a neighbouring colliery who wished to build houses upon that land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will this and other improved types be available to colliers and other coastal craft? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He also went on board some of the colliers, at my suggestion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope to see the day when we shall have rehabilitation centres for other workers than colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the mining villages it must be applied to the sons of coalowners and colliery managers as well as to the sons of colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are colliers, textile operatives, dock labourers, agricultural workers and men of that type. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have two or three old colliers in my constituency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was personally popular, but many of the colliers who did not like their fight interfered with were inclined to treat him very roughly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The term "free colliers" meant that they were trying to buy the freedom of the men from the coal owners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to make a plea, as somebody who comes from colliers and farmers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One could say the same thing of other primary producers, the colliers in particular. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dock was formerly used for coal traffic, and the position today is that it is much too small to accommodate modern colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have thousands of colliers in my division, and they have raised this point with me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody else lived there until the colliers, the steel workers and the tinplate workers came along. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time it was felt that the police in the area would be too friendly with the colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard of colliers working down below at nearly 70 years of age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I earnestly hope that this most important question affecting the interests of the colliers will not be overlooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to say anything against the colliers themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They work alongside colliers underground, and they always have done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anyone who knows colliers' houses will know how extremely hard it is on the colliers' wives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Boys in large numbers are employed by colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Taking the hand injuries, the number in 1933 was 40,616, and that means that practically 1,000 colliers every week were injured in their hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me enumerate some of the items of deduction that are made from a collier's pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The statements reported to me are that the colliers in general would prefer the existing system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The colliers calling is a very dangerous one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By modern mechanisation the collier's work would be lightened, and it would be possible to get two tons for every ton produced now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Railway men are no more rioters than are colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The colliers took it up strip after strip, and built cottages for themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no more industrious and heroic class of men under the sun than the colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we to assume that if the number of unemployed colliers proves to be very large, some amelioration will be given to them? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a right to say that, if it means slightly dearer coal, it is better to have slightly dearer coal than cheaper colliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there are others, such as colliers, who want to get back on the land, is that not a desirable thing? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may sympathise with the colliers, but that does not mean a sympathetic strike. 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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