blue-collar

adj.

1. 从事体力劳动的；蓝领的
   connected with people who do physical work in industry
   1. blue-collar workers/voters/votes
      蓝领工人 / 选民 / 选票

1. ADJ 蓝领的；从事体力劳动的
   Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
   1. By 1925, blue-collar workers in manufacturing industry had become the largest occupational group.
      到1925年，制造业的蓝领工人已成为最大的职业群体。

1. The solution, then, would simply be to offer more training and education to displaced blue-collar workers.
   那么解决办法不过是向被取代了的蓝领工人提供更多培训和教育。
2. Companies often cite a paucity of domestic blue-collar workers as a barrier.
   台湾企业常常说，本地蓝领工人不足是妨碍他们在台湾投资的一个因素。
3. If you look at job trends over the last 100 years, blue-collar and farming jobs are disappearing, but service industry and white-collar jobs are on a steady and welcome rise.
   如果你看一下在过去一百年的发展趋势，可以发现蓝领和农场工作正在消失，但是服务业和白领工作呈现稳定增长的趋势。
4. The disappearance of blue-collar and entry-level jobs is already a problem, and that problem will grow.
   蓝领阶层和基础职位的消失已经成了一个问题，而这个问题还将继续扩大。
5. Job pressures have caused some students to take jobs as technical workers or in other blue-collar occupations, but their parents are seldom happy about it, fearing the children will not be paid well or achieve a high social status.
   工作压力已经导致一些学生在技术工人或其他蓝领职业领域参加工作，但他们的父母对此很少开心，担心孩子们会不赚钱或达不到一个高的社会地位。
6. Taiwan currently has the same minimum wage for foreign and domestic blue-collar workers, but business groups have been advocating separate wage tracks.
   目前台湾的本地蓝领工人和外籍蓝领工人都适用相同的最低工资标准，但台湾的商业团体一直建议政府让这两个群体分别适用不同的最低工资标准。
7. White-collar jobs should be valued more than blue-collar jobs.
   白领的工作应比蓝领的更受人尊重。
8. Chan, a 34-year-old high-school dropout, has one of Hong Kong's most vertiginous and challenging blue-collar jobs.
   陈，34岁，高中辍学生，是香港最令人眩晕，最具挑战性的蓝领工人之一。
9. It is not clear how many of those white, blue-collar voters he will persuade to back Mr Obama.
   现在还不清楚到底他会说服多少白人蓝领选民支持奥巴马。
10. So they are called blue-collar workers.
    因此，他们被称为蓝领工人。
11. As denim became more and more essential to blue-collar worker wear, the need for indigo increased, too.
    由于牛仔布越来越重要的蓝领工人磨损，对靛蓝需要增加，也。
12. This applies to all white-collar employees, and sometimes to blue-collar workers as well.
    这些规定不仅适用于白领阶层，而且有时也适用于蓝领阶层。
13. A squeeze on bank lending has prompted some businesses short of cash to stop paying wages to blue-collar workers.
    银行贷款收紧导致一些现金不足的企业暂停给蓝领工人发工资。
14. Nowadays they are largely blue-collar workers;
    他们现在大多还只能说是蓝领工人；
15. It's not only blue-collar workers who are feeling the greatest anguish.
    不止是蓝领工人感到这巨大的痛苦。
16. The jobs of many blue-collar workers are now done by machines.
    许多蓝领工人的工作现在已由机器替代。
17. The town remains largely blue-collar, but manufacturing jobs are hard to come by.
    如今镇上的居民仍以蓝领工人为主，但制造业的工作很难找。
18. Many women whose husbands were blue-collar workers had white-collar jobs themselves.
    许多丈夫为蓝领劳工的妇女本身却从事白领的工作。
19. Blue-collar workers in the United States have also lost out.
    在美国的蓝领工人也失去了很多。
20. White-Collar Man in a Blue-Collar World
    蓝领世界中的白领人
21. In its heyday, unionised manufacturing supported a US blue-collar middle class with good wages and welfare benefits.
    在通用汽车全盛时期，工会化的制造业为美国蓝领中产阶级提供了优厚的薪酬和福利待遇。
22. In a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, an old school has been converted into a dormitory for 88 students from China.
    在底特律一个蓝领聚居的郊区，人们将一所老学校改造成了宿舍楼，供来自中国的88名学生居住。
23. One study, of blue-collar women workers, showed that daily consumption of bananas reduced their incidence of illness, while improving morale, attentiveness and energy levels.
    一组针对蓝领女工的研究表明，每天食用香蕉不仅可以降低她们的患病率，且可提高她们的斗志、注意力和活力。
24. Benjamin spent less time with intellectuals and more with his blue-collar employees, and sure enough, his business sense surged.
    Benjamin花更少的时间和知识分子在一起，更多的时间和蓝领在一起，果不其然，他的商业感大大提高。
25. All the blue-collar workers who worked on the construction site went on strike.
    所有在工地工作的工人参加了罢工。
26. There are some drawbacks to unions? But they have done a lot of good for blue-collar workers.
    工会是有些缺点，但他们为蓝领工人谋了不少福利。
27. I still think of myself as a blue-collar worker.
    我还是把自己当作一个蓝领工人。