| 单词 | forced labour |
| 释义 | ˌforced ˈlabour British English, forced labor American English noun [uncountable] when prisoners or slaves are forced to do very hard physical work, or a system in which this happens 强制劳动 Two million suffered imprisonment or forced labour. 两百万人遭到囚禁或被强制劳动。Examples from the Corpusforced labour• These were State enterprises, engineered by the military, and using convict and forced labour.• The effects of conquest were followed by the still greater catastrophes of exploitation and forced labour.• In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it, many of them prisoners at forced labour.• It also imposed forced labour, and maintained an astonishing, rigorously trained army.• They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour.• It can be argued that forced labour has not ceased but merely changed its form.From Longman Business Dictionaryforced labourˌforced ˈlabour British English, forced labor American English people who are forced to do hard physical work in bad conditions, or the work itselfthe replacement of forced labour by wage labourThousands suffered imprisonment or forced labour. → labourˌforced ˈlabour nounChineseSyllable to slaves hard Business when prisoners Corpus do or forced very are |
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