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.

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

noun

His proper trade is a navvy.
他本来是个挖土的苦力。
Land levelling project designed for much suited for planting or other using by navvy work according to specific conditions and standards is the base of the project.
土地平整工程规划设计就是为使平整后的土地具有更适合种植或者其他用途的需要而根据一定的条件、按照一定的标准所进行的土方挖填和调配的过程。
He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and his broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that.
除了做苦工之外，别的他也干不了，即使这样，他的伤鼻子和肿耳朵还总是碍事。
He had done a few days navvy work when he could get it, and he had run around the Domain in the early mornings to get his legs in shape.
他有时能找到几天卖苦力的差使干干。每天早晨他都要沿着都门公园跑上几圈，活动活动腿脚。