汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 苦工
苦工
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
〈名〉❶被迫从事的辛苦繁重的体力劳动:做~。❷被迫做苦工的体力劳动者:解放前他在煤矿当过~。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

在这儿只有折磨神经戕害身体的苦工,没有思想。

He had no thoughts save for the nerve-racking, body - destroying toil.

当他们开着新“路虎揽胜’驶入车道时,并不知道要做多长时间的苦工才能拥有这辆车。”

When the new Range Rover pulls into the driveway, there’s no concept of how many hours of hard work went into owning that vehicle.

她透过一层薄雾般的想象看着这些苦工,一种朦胧幽微半明半暗的光线--那正是诗的意境。

She saw it through a mist of fancy--a pale, sombre half-light, which was the essence of poetic feeling.

可恶的侵略者还趁火打劫,逼我们鉴定《南京条约》等不平等的条约,叫老百姓帮他们做苦工,挖煤矿,给他们当牛做马。

Evil aggressors also in trouble, force us to identify the "Nanjing Treaty" and the unequal treaties, called the people to help them to hard labor, digging coal mine, giving them as cattle and horses.

等到战事结束之后,他只允许它吃谷糠,还让它承担载运木材的重负;叫它做许多苦工贱役,受尽一切虐待。

When the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat, and made him carry heavy loads of wood, and subjected him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.