喜樂美語
  1. 1nC1/ˈwɜːrkfɔːrs/ · /ˈwɜːkfɔːs/勞動力

    All the people who work in a company, industry, or country.

    示範例句 · Example

    Women now make up almost half of the workforce.

    逐字女性現在組成幾乎一半的勞動力。

    「workforce」指一個公司、產業或國家裡「所有在工作的人」這一整群，中文常說「勞動力」。跟 staff 比：staff 多半指某一間公司或學校的人；workforce 常講更大範圍。核心畫面可以想成「work（工作）加上 force（一股力量）」——一起工作的那群人。

    常見搭配

    • skilled workforce

      有技能的勞動力

      workers who have special skills for their jobs

      The science park wants a highly skilled workforce.

    • enter the workforce

      進入職場；開始就業

      to start working life; begin having a job

      Many young people enter the workforce after college.

    • total workforce

      全體員工；總勞動力

      the complete number of people who work there

      Women are about 40% of the total workforce here.

    • flexible workforce

      有彈性的勞動力

      workers who can change tasks or hours as needed

      A flexible workforce can learn new tools quickly.

    • cut its workforce

      裁減人力；縮減員工數

      to make the number of workers smaller

      The shop cut its workforce from thirty to twenty.

    • train its workforce

      培訓員工；訓練勞動力

      to teach the company’s workers new skills

      The hospital will train its workforce in safety skills.

    意思相近

    staffemployeeslabour forcemanpowerpersonnel

    用法接近

    workersstaffcrewteamlabour

core核心畫面

One way to hold it: everyone who works, counted as one body. Not this employee or that one — the whole set of them, seen the way a planner or a news report sees it: a number that can grow, shrink, or need .

可以想成把所有在工作的人合起來當成一個整體來看：不是某位員工，而是全部加起來的那一群——就像規劃者或新聞報導看事情的角度，一個會增加、會減少、需要再訓練的數字。

意思相近

staffemployeeslabour forcemanpowerpersonnel

用法接近

workersstaffcrewteamlabour

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

workforcenoun/ˈwɝk.foɹs/

  • 1

    All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.

    • The rail sector's ageing workforce (28% of workers are over 50 years old) means that about 15,000 people could retire from the industry by 2025.
    • But much of the federal workforce is located outside the nation’s capital, and Trump’s offer was met with confusion and skepticism in many of those offices.
  • 2

    The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.

    • “There is no question the US economy will get smaller as you deport a lot of the workforce,” Kent Smetters, professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said in an interview.

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