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 roustabout ['raustә,baut]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 码头工人, 甲板水手

[经] 码头工人, 非熟练工, 半熟




    roustabout
    [ noun ]
    a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
    <noun.person>


    Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
    A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who
    moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an
    opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance
    jobs. [Western U.S.]

    1. In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
    2. But in a way it's a story that has to be told." At one point in the film, Vince, the unemployed roustabout, delivers a monologue that frames the movie's political message.
    3. The same might be said for the owner, a white-whiskered roustabout by the name of Irving Greenblatt, who is something of a latterday Hemingway.
    4. Mike Huber, a roustabout, is even making it in his new career as an entrepreneur.
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