job
n. 工作; 任务; 职责; 犯罪行为; 东西; (计算机)作业
A job is the work that someone does to earn money.
Once I'm in America I can get a job...
我一到美国就能找到工作。
Thousands have lost their jobs...
数以千计的人失业了。
A job is a particular task.
He said he hoped that the job of putting together a coalition wouldn't take too much time...
他说他希望结成联盟的工作不会耗时太久。
Save major painting jobs for the spring or summer.
把主要的油漆活儿留到春天或夏天干。
The job of a particular person or thing is their duty or function.
Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness...
它们的主要功效是保健而非治病。
His next job is to get us to the World Cup finals...
他接下来的任务是带领我们闯入世界杯决赛圈。
If you say that someone is doing a good job, you mean that they are doing something well. In British English, you can also say that they are making a good job of something.
We could do a far better job of managing it than they have...
我们会比他们经营得好得多。
You've done a fine job with Billy and Joey.
你和比利、乔伊一起干得非常出色。
If you say that you have a job doing something, you are emphasizing how difficult it is.
He may have a hard job selling that argument to investors...
他可能得磨破嘴皮才能让投资者接受那个观点。
With all these different pensions, you're going to have a job to keep track.
这么多不同种类的养老金,你想要了解可得费点劲儿。
If you refer to work as jobs for the boys, you mean that the work is unfairly given to someone's friends, supporters, or relations, even though they may not be the best qualified people to do it.
The Party has been accused of creating a 'jobs for the boys' system of government.
该党被指责实行“任人唯亲”的政府用人机制。
If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
Not only is it just the job for travelling, but it's handy for groceries too.
它不仅非常适合于旅行,而且用来日常购物也很方便。
If someone is on the job, they are actually doing a particular job or task.
The top pay scale after five years on the job would reach $5.00 an hour...
在这个岗位干上5年后,最高薪酬可达每小时5美元。
There was no formal training; they learned on the job.
并没有正式的培训;他们是边干边学的。
1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
3. the performance of a piece of work;
4. the responsibility to do something;
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working;
7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
8. a damaging piece of work;
9. a crime (especially a robbery);
10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
1. profit privately from public office and official business
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
3. work occasionally;
4. invest at a risk;
profession, job, occupation, trade, vocation, career, work, employment
这些名词均含"职业"之意。
work, task, job
这些名词均有"工作"之意。
big jobs
(英,非正式 婉)粪便;通便
do the job
(非正式)获得成功;实现(要求的结果),完成
give something up as a bad job
(非正式)(认为将白费力气而)放弃
a good job
(非正式,主英)好事,幸运的事,令人满意的状况
jobs for the boys
(英,贬)为亲信所安排的工作
just the job
(英,非正式)正是想要的东西
make the best of a bad job
out of a job
失业的;被解雇的
on the job
留心着;警惕着
We have the steel to get this job done.
我们有决心把这工作做完.
He traded a job in New York City for the life of a cowboy.
他放弃了在纽约的工作,去过牛仔生活.
He is disposed to accept the new job, for the pay is higher.
他倾向于接受这个新的工作, 因为工资高一些.
I want to apply for the job.
我想申请这项工作.
This job entails a lot of hard work.
这项工作需要十分努力.