(adj.) not engaged in a gainful occupation; 'unemployed workers marched on the capital' .
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双语例句
When the latter was unemployed, he sometimes walked with us to show us the boats and ships, and once or twice he took us for a row. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny--ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Such a merchant would have no occasion to keep any part of his stock by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Very well; but she complains of being unemployed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The merchant in Edinburgh, on the other hand, keeps no money unemployed for answering such occasional demands. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
By being obliged to keep so great a sum unemployed, he must sell in a year five hundred pounds worth less goods than he might otherwise have done. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.