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work for which you receive regular payment 工作；职业；职位 I don't have a job at present. 目前没有工作。 He's trying to get a job. 他正在找工作。 I'm thinking of applying for a new job. 我在考虑申请一份新工作。 to look for/find a job 寻找/找到工作 Did they offer you the job? 他们给你这个职位了吗？ - job as something
She took a job as a waitress. 她找了个工作，当服务员。 - job with somebody/something
She's just started a job with a travel company. 她刚刚在一家旅游公司开始工作。 His brother's just lost his job. 他的弟弟刚丢了工作。 to leave/quit your job 离职/辞职 Don't be late again if you want to keep your job. 如果你想保住工作，就不要再迟到了。 a temporary/permanent job 临时／固定工作 a summer/Saturday/holiday/vacation job 暑期/周六/假日/假期工作 Both my parents have full-time jobs. 我父母都有全职工作。 Many women are in part-time jobs. 许多妇女都做的是兼职工作。 She's never had a steady job (= a job that is not going to end suddenly). 她从未有过稳定的工作。 It's one of the top jobs in management. 那是管理层最高级别的岗位之一。 - job of something
one of the people under consideration for the job of managing director 被考虑担任总经理的人之一 - in a job
an increase in the number of people in jobs (= having jobs) 就业人数的增加 - out of a job
He's been out of a job (= unemployed) for six months now. 他已经失业六个月了。 The takeover of the company is bound to mean more job losses. 公司被接管必然意味着更多人要失业。 There is so much competition in the job market currently. 目前就业市场竞争激烈。 He certainly knows his job (= is very good at his job). 他对自己的工作很在行。 I'm only doing my job (= I'm doing what I am paid to do). 我不过在做我分内的事。 These projects will help create jobs in rural areas. 这些项目将有助于在农村地区创造就业机会。 The alternative would have been to cut jobs to contain costs. 另一种选择是裁员以控制成本。 The closure of the factory will mean the loss of over 800 jobs. 工厂的关闭将意味着800多个工作岗位的流失。
Synonyms jobjob- position
- post
- vacancy
- appointment
- job work for which you receive regular payment:
He’s trying to get a job in a bank. 他正设法在银行找一个工作。
- position (rather formal
) a job: 指职位、职务： a senior position in a large corporation 在一家大公司的高级职务
job or position? 用 job 还是 position？ - post a job, especially an important one in a large organization:
a key post in the new government 在新政府中的要职
- vacancy a job that is available for somebody to do:
We have several vacancies for casual workers. 我们有几个临时工的空缺。
- appointment (rather formal, especially British English) a job or position of responsibility:
This is a permanent appointment, requiring commitment and hard work. 这是一个固定职位，需要专心致志和勤奋工作。
- a permanent/temporary job/position/post/vacancy/appointment
- a full-time/part-time job/position/post/vacancy/appointment
- to have/have got a(n) job/position/post/vacancy/appointment
- to apply for/fill a job/position/post/vacancy
- to resign from/leave/quit a job/position/post
CollocationsJobs 工作 Jobs 职业 Getting a job 找工作 - look for work
找工作 - look for/apply for/go for a job
找工作；申请一个职位；努力争取工作 - get/pick up/complete/fill out/ (British English) fill in an application (form)
得到／拿到／完成／填写申请（表） - send/email your (British English) CV/(North American English) résumé/application/application form/covering letter
寄／通过电邮发送简历／申请／申请表／附函 - be called for/have/attend an interview
被要求参加／有／参加面试 - offer somebody a job/work/employment/promotion
给某人提供一份工作；雇用某人；提拔某人 - find/get/land a job
找到工作 - employ/ (especially North American English) hire/recruit/ (especially British English) take on staff/workers/trainees
雇用员工／工人／实习生 - recruit/appoint a manager
招聘／任命经理
Doing a job 做工作 - arrive at/get to/leave work/the office/the factory
上／下班；到办公室／工厂上班；从办公室／工厂下班 - start/finish work/your shift
开始／结束工作／轮班工作时间 - do/put in/work overtime
加班 - have/gain/get/lack/need experience/qualifications
拥有／获得／缺乏／需要经验／资格 - do/get/have/receive training
做／得到／接受培训 - learn/pick up/improve/develop (your) skills
学习／偶然学会／提高／发展技能 - cope with/manage/share/spread the workload
应付／勉力完成／分担／分摊工作量 - improve your/achieve a better work-life balance
达到更好的工作与生活的平衡 - have (no) job satisfaction/job security
有／没有工作满足感／职业保障
Building a career 建立职业生涯 - have a job/work/a career/a vocation
有工作／事业／职业 - find/follow/pursue/ (especially North American English) live (out) your vocation
找到／从事／致力于／实践适合自己的职业 - enter/go into/join a profession
加入一个行业 - choose/embark on/start/begin/pursue a career
选择／从事／开始／致力于一种职业 - change jobs/profession/career
换工作／行业／职业 - be/ (both especially British English) work/go freelance
做自由职业 - do/take on temp work/freelance work
做／开始从事临时工作／特约工作 - do/be engaged in/be involved in voluntary work
做／从事／参与义务性工作
Leaving your job 离职 - leave/ (especially North American English) quit/resign from your job
离职；辞职 - give up work/your job/your career
放弃工作／事业 - hand in your notice/resignation
递交辞呈 - plan to/be due to retire in June/next year, etc.
计划／预计六月／明年等退休 - take early retirement
提前退休
Collocations UnemploymentUnemployment 失业 Losing your job 失业 - lose your job
失业 - (British English) become/be made redundant
被裁减 - be offered/take voluntary redundancy/early retirement
被要求／选择自愿裁退／提前退休 - face/be threatened with dismissal/(British English) the sack/(British English) compulsory redundancy
面临被解职／被裁／强制裁员；受到解职／被裁／强制裁员的威胁 - dismiss/fire/ (especially British English) sack an employee/a worker/a manager
解雇雇员／工人／经理 - lay off staff/workers/employees
解雇员工／工人／雇员 - (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English) retrench workers
缩减人员 - cut/reduce/downsize/slash the workforce
裁减员工 - (British English) make staff/workers/employees redundant
裁员
Being unemployed 失业；待业；下岗 - be unemployed/out of work/out of a job
失业 - seek/look for work/employment
找工作 - be on/collect/draw/get/receive (both British English) unemployment benefit/jobseeker’s allowance
领取失业补助金 - be/go/live/sign (British English, informal) on the dole
领取失业救济金 - claim/draw/get (British English, informal) the dole
领取失业救济金 - be on/qualify for (North American English) unemployment (compensation)
领取／有资格领取失业补偿金 - be/go/live/depend (North American English) on welfare
靠社会保障金过活 - collect/receive (North American English) welfare
领取社会保障金 - combat/tackle/cut/reduce unemployment
防止／解决／减少失业
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifea1, Jobsa1, Social issuesa1He gave up his job as a bank manager last year. 他去年放弃了银行经理的工作。 She's hoping for a teaching job at the university. 她希望在大学里找到一份教学工作。 Check our website for the latest job listings. 请浏览我们的网站查看最新的招聘职位列表。 Despite the small number of applicants, they managed to find the right person for the job. 虽然求职人数很少，他们还是找到了适合这个岗位的人。 He moved to a better-paid job with another employer. 他跳槽换了一份薪水更高的工作。 He was forced to take a series of menial jobs. 他被迫去做了一连串琐碎的工作。 He was tempted to give up freelancing and get a regular job. 他很想放弃现在的自由职业而找一份固定的工作。 He'd done lots of part-time work, but this was his first proper job. 他做过许多兼职，但这是他的第一份正式工作。 He's always had difficulty holding down a job. 他总是难以保住工作。 He's just landed himself a highly paid job in banking. 他刚刚在银行业谋得了一份高薪工作。 His father found him a cushy job in the office, with almost nothing to do and a big salary. 他父亲给他在办事处找了份轻松的工作，几乎无所事事却薪水丰厚。 His job title is Chief Hygiene Operative. 他的职位名称是卫生工作主任。 It is hoped that the development will create new jobs in the region. 希望此项开发能为该地区创造新的就业岗位。 It's important to devise a job search strategy when looking for work. 找工作的时候设计一套求职战略是很重要的。 Management are hoping to shed 200 jobs. 管理层希望削减200 个工作岗位。 She was dismissed from her job after only six months. 仅 6 个月之后她就被辞退了。 She's starting a new job on Monday. 星期一她将开始一份新的工作。 The company is hoping to shed 200 jobs. 该公司希望削减 200 个工作岗位。 The deal between the union and management should safeguard 6 000 jobs. 工会与资方达成的协议应该能保住 6,000 个工作岗位。 The introduction of job sharing could prevent the need for job losses. 实行工作分享制可以避免裁员。 The job doesn't pay very well. 这份工作报酬不太高。 The plum jobs all went to friends of the prime minister. 美差都派给了首相的朋友们。 There is an enormous job market for teachers at the moment. 目前教师就业市场需求旺盛。 What would be your dream job? 你理想的工作是什么？ Within weeks of graduation she had several job offers. 毕业后几个星期内她就得到了几个工作机会。 Workers questioned rated job security as being more important than high salary. 接受询问的工人认为工作稳定比高薪更重要。 a desk job in the housing department 住房部的案头工作
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- decent
- good
- great
- …
- have
- carry out
- do
- …
- pay
- disappear
- go
- …
- search
- ad
- advertisement
- …
- in a/the job
- on the job
- out of a job
- …
- change jobs
- move jobs
- a loss of jobs
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a particular task or piece of work that you have to do （一项）任务；（一件）工作，活儿，事情 I've got various jobs around the house to do. 我在家里有各种各样的活儿要干。 Sorting these papers out is going to be a long job. 整理这些文件是很费工夫的事。 The builder has a couple of jobs on at the moment. 目前这家建筑商有几项工程在进行。 - job of doing something
She's taken on the job of organizing the Christmas party. 她承担起了组织圣诞聚会的任务。
Extra ExamplesCooper had the unenviable job of announcing the bad news. 库珀领受了负责宣布坏消息这个没人愿意干的差事。 They gave me the tough job of telling applicants that they'd been rejected. 他们把难办的差事交给了我，要我通知求职者他们的申请被拒了。 I want to get on with the job of painting my room today. 我想今天继续粉刷我的房间。 I was very pleased with the way she handled the job. 我对她处理工作的方式很满意。 Keeping the house clean can be a thankless job. 保持房屋清洁可是份受累不讨好的差事。 We finished the job in five hours. 我们用时 5 小时完成了任务。 We're hoping to get the job done this weekend. 我们希望本周末把这活儿干完。 fiddly little jobs like wiring plugs 给插头接线之类的麻烦活儿 Bringing up kids is a full-time job. 带孩子是一个全职工作。 Changing the oil in your car can be a tedious and dirty job. 给你的汽车换油可能是一项乏味而肮脏的工作。 I'm not sure I'll be able to get the job done in the time. 我不能肯定我能及时完成这项工作。 My dad's always giving me loads of jobs to do. 我爸爸总是给我很多工作要做。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- adequate
- decent
- good
- …
- carry out
- do
- handle
- …
- job in
- job on
- get the job done
- make a good, poor, etc. job of something
- odd jobs
- …
- [usually singular] (rather informal)
a responsibility or duty 责任；职责 - (informal)
a crime, especially stealing 犯罪行为（尤指偷窃） a bank job 银行抢劫案 He got six months for that last job he did. 他上次犯罪获刑 6 个月。 an inside job (= done by somebody in the organization where the crime happens) 内部人员作的案 The gang bungled the job and got caught. 这个团伙因罪行败露而被捕。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bank
- inside
- do
- bungle
- (informal)
a particular kind of thing 东西；物件 an item of work that is done by a computer as a single unit （作为一个单元处理的）作业，工作 The job can be processed overnight. 这个活儿连夜就可以处理完。
paid work有酬工作
task任务
duty职责
crime罪行
object物体
computing计算机技术
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the noun): of unknown origin.
Idioms
asleep on the job | asleep at the wheel
(North American English also asleep at the switch)
not paying enough attention to what you need to do 在工作中睡着了| 在方向盘上睡着了： 没有对需要做的事给予足够的重视They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened. 随着金融危机的加深，他们在工作中睡着了。 Let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel. 让我们希望监管者不是在开车时睡着了。 Someone must have been asleep at the switch to alow this to happen. 发生这种事时，一定有人在睡觉。
a devil of a job/time
do a good, bad, etc. job (on something) | make a good, bad, etc. job of something
to do something well, badly, etc. 干得好（或差等）；将…办好（或坏等） They did a very professional job. 他们干得非常内行。 You've certainly made an excellent job of the kitchen (= for example, painting it). 你们把厨房弄得好极了。 We haven’t done a very good job on the publicity for the show. 我们没有为这个节目做好宣传工作。
Extra ExamplesShe made a very good job of covering up the damage. 她把破损处掩盖得很好。 They've done a poor job of managing their finances. 他们的财务管理一塌糊涂。 You've done a good job on the car. 你把车子弄得很好。 You've done a grand job with that decorating. 你装修任务完成得很好。 The author has done an admirable job in compiling all this material. 作者汇编了所有这些材料，真令人赞叹。
do the job
- (informal)
to be effective or successful in doing what you want 起作用；有效 This extra strong glue should do the job. 这种超黏度胶应该管用。 Try wedging it open—that should do the job. 找个楔子把它撑开 － 应该管用。
give somebody/something up as a bad job
- (informal)
to decide to stop trying to help somebody or to do something because there is no hope of success 对…不再抱有希望；因没有希望而决定放弃
good job!
- (especially North American English, informal)
used to tell somebody that they have done well at something 干得不错；办得好；好呀
a good job
have a (hard/difficult) job doing/to do something
to have difficulty doing something 干某事很困难（或很吃力、很费力） You'll have a job convincing them that you're right. 要让他们信服你是对的还要费点劲。 He had a hard job to make himself heard. 他好不容易才使别人听见他的声音。
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec2He'll have a tough job getting the team into shape in time. 他将面临一项艰巨的任务，即及时组建团队。 It's very dark out there, you'll have a job to see anything. 外面很黑，你有工作可以看任何东西。
a job of work
jobs for the boys
- (British English, informal, disapproving)
people use the expression jobs for the boys when they are criticizing the fact that somebody in power has given work to friends or relatives 为亲信安排的工作（或职位）；任人唯亲
just the job (British English)
(also just the ticket North American English, British English)
- (informal, approving)
exactly what is needed in a particular situation 正需要的东西；求之不得的东西 That cup of tea was just the job. 那杯茶来得正是时候。
make the best of something/it | make the best of things | make the best of a bad job
to accept a bad or difficult situation and do as well as you can 尽力而为
more than your job’s worth (to do something)
- (British English, informal)
not worth doing because it is against the rules or because it might cause you to lose your job 工作所不允许的事；违反原则的事；可能丢饭碗的事
on the job
walk off the job
- (North American English)
to stop working in order to go on strike （离开岗位）罢工