| 单词 | shock worker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshock worker shock worker n. now historical (in the Soviet Union and other communist countries) a worker who voluntarily exceeded state production quotas and was regarded as exemplary; (also) a member of a shock brigade; cf. Stakhanovite n. [After Russian udarnik udarnik n.] ΚΠ 1931 Morning Post 11 Aug. 11/7 Three hundred and fifty Russian ‘shock workers’ landed in London from the S.S. Ukraine yesterday for a two days' ‘holiday’. 1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 16 For us mere Shock-workers of the Camp and City Whose sweat, and life-blood, is their beer. 1981 I. Boland tr. E. S. Ginzburg Within Whirlwind i. x. 84 The management did not want to use force... These girls were shock workers. 2018 D. L. Hoffmann Stalinist Era ii. 57 Shock workers set production records—the most cement poured in a 24-hour period or the most steel produced in a week. < as lemmas |
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