job
n. 工作; 任務; 職責; 犯罪行為; 東西; (計算機)作業
A job is the work that someone does to earn money.
Once I'm in America I can get a job...
我一到美國就能找到工作。
Thousands have lost their jobs...
數以千計的人失業了。
A job is a particular task.
He said he hoped that the job of putting together a coalition wouldn't take too much time...
他說他希望結成聯盟的工作不會耗時太久。
Save major painting jobs for the spring or summer.
把主要的油漆活兒留到春天或夏天干。
The job of a particular person or thing is their duty or function.
Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness...
它們的主要功效是保健而非治病。
His next job is to get us to the World Cup finals...
他接下來的任務是帶領我們闖入世界盃決賽圈。
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...
我們會比他們經營得好得多。
You've done a fine job with Billy and Joey.
你和比利、喬伊一起幹得非常出色。
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讓投資者接受那個觀點。
With all these different pensions, you're going to have a job to keep track.
這麼多不同種類的養老金,你想要了解可得費點勁兒。
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.
該黨被指責實行“任人唯親”的政府用人機制。
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.
它不僅非常適合於旅行,而且用來日常購物也很方便。
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...
在這個崗位幹上5年後,最高薪酬可達每小時5美元。
There was no formal training; they learned on the job.
並沒有正式的培訓;他們是邊幹邊學的。
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
這些名詞均含"職業"之意。
work, task, job
這些名詞均有"工作"之意。
big jobs
(英,非正式 婉)糞便;通便
do the job
(非正式)獲得成功;實現(要求的結果),完成
give something up as a bad job
(非正式)(認為將白費力氣而)放棄
a good job
(非正式,主英)好事,幸運的事,令人滿意的狀況
jobs for the boys
(英,貶)為親信所安排的工作
just the job
(英,非正式)正是想要的東西
make the best of a bad job
out of a job
失業的;被解僱的
on the job
留心著;警惕著
We have the steel to get this job done.
我們有決心把這工作做完.
He traded a job in New York City for the life of a cowboy.
他放棄了在紐約的工作,去過牛仔生活.
He is disposed to accept the new job, for the pay is higher.
他傾向於接受這個新的工作, 因為工資高一些.
I want to apply for the job.
我想申請這項工作.
This job entails a lot of hard work.
這項工作需要十分努力.