英语词汇“roustabout”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

roustabout

/ˈraʊstəbaʊt

noun

1An unskilled or casual labourer.It's the place of choice for all sorts of hard-living roustabouts who come into town to blow off a little steam after long days, weeks or even months of toil in the mines and lumber camps....

You never know whether you're talking to a roustabout or someone with a PhD in physical science.
He was a roustabout, he herded sheep, he was a streetcar motorman.

1.1A labourer on an oil rig.While there is no hardship pay for working offshore, entry-level roustabouts on the drilling rig still begin at about $30,000 per year....

During the interior secretary's tenure in the 1980s, he jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells.
The bump-backs cascade down the hierarchy of skills and seniority; the roustabouts and roughnecks in lesser-skilled positions and typically of recent hire go walking.

1.2North American A dock labourer or deckhand.A rig could be brought from Singapore or Perth and there would be opportunities for Hawke's Bay people to work on it as roustabouts and engineers.

1.3North American A circus labourer.The race quickly becomes a contest between Borghese's Italia and the Spyker, driven by a Dutch circus roustabout....

He had a rich and varied career, as fairground boxer, circus roustabout, cartoonist, poster designer, trades-union journal editor, television presenter, and towards the end of his life, psychotherapist.
Every one of the musicians in the orchestra have spent uncounted numbers of hours to become the fine, cohesive, interpretive group they are and you treat them like three-ring roustabouts.

1.4Australian /NZ variant spelling of rouseabout.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from the verb roust.

单词	roustabout
释义	roustabout /ˈraʊstəbaʊt / noun 1An unskilled or casual labourer.It's the place of choice for all sorts of hard-living roustabouts who come into town to blow off a little steam after long days, weeks or even months of toil in the mines and lumber camps.... You never know whether you're talking to a roustabout or someone with a PhD in physical science. He was a roustabout, he herded sheep, he was a streetcar motorman. 1.1A labourer on an oil rig.While there is no hardship pay for working offshore, entry-level roustabouts on the drilling rig still begin at about $30,000 per year.... During the interior secretary's tenure in the 1980s, he jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells. The bump-backs cascade down the hierarchy of skills and seniority; the roustabouts and roughnecks in lesser-skilled positions and typically of recent hire go walking. 1.2North American A dock labourer or deckhand.A rig could be brought from Singapore or Perth and there would be opportunities for Hawke's Bay people to work on it as roustabouts and engineers. 1.3North American A circus labourer.The race quickly becomes a contest between Borghese's Italia and the Spyker, driven by a Dutch circus roustabout.... He had a rich and varied career, as fairground boxer, circus roustabout, cartoonist, poster designer, trades-union journal editor, television presenter, and towards the end of his life, psychotherapist. Every one of the musicians in the orchestra have spent uncounted numbers of hours to become the fine, cohesive, interpretive group they are and you treat them like three-ring roustabouts. 1.4Australian /NZ variant spelling of rouseabout. Origin Mid 19th century: from the verb roust.
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