navvy

英 [ˈnævi]

美 [ˈnævi]

n.  壮工; 苦力; (尤指)筑路工

复数：navvies　现在分词：navvying　

BNC.24872

牛津词典

noun

• 壮工；苦力；（尤指）筑路工
  a person employed to do hard physical work, especially building roads, etc.

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 苦工;筑路工
  Anavvyis a person who is employed to do hard physical work, for example building roads or canals.
  1. ...a blackened young navvy, swinging a pickaxe in the sweating tunnel.
     在闷热的隧道里挥舞着丁字镐干活的一个肤色黝黑的年轻挖土工

英英释义

noun

• a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
  Synonym:drudgepeongalley slave

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