Word · Frequency #2830
unemployed
/ˌʌnemˈplɔɪd/
noun
失业者；失业人员（总称）
核心释义
通常与 the 连用，指失业者群体。
people who do not have a job, considered as a group
- 1.
失业者(总称)
The unemployed people of a society or the world, taken collectively.
- 2.
非自愿失业的人(作为一个群体)
people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
失业者(总称)；非自愿失业的人(作为一个群体)
用法In use
The new policy offers free retraining courses to the unemployed.
用法提示：此处“unemployed”是名词，与“the”连用，指失业者群体。
Many of the unemployed have been job hunting online since last month.
用法提示：“the unemployed”作为复数名词，表示失业的人们。
The local library holds weekly workshops to help the unemployed build interview skills.
用法提示：这里“unemployed”用作集合名词，表示失业者这一类人。
the long-term unemployed need assistance
the unemployed + plural verb
the unemployed 是集合名词，作主语时谓语动词用复数。
In this town, the unemployed are mostly former factory workers.
在这个镇上，失业者大多是以前的工厂工人。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- the unemployed
- 失业者（总称）
- The government has promised new training schemes for the unemployed.政府承诺为失业者提供新的培训计划。
- the long-term unemployed
- 长期失业者
- The long-term unemployed often find it hardest to get back into work.长期失业者往往最难重新就业。
- help the unemployed
- 帮助失业者
- The charity runs workshops to help the unemployed write CVs.这家慈善机构举办工作坊，帮助失业者撰写简历。
- join the ranks of the unemployed
- 加入失业大军
- Hundreds of factory workers joined the ranks of the unemployed last month.上个月数百名工厂工人加入了失业大军。
学习提示Learner notes
语法说明Grammar Note
作名词时通常以 the unemployed 形式出现，表复数，谓语动词用复数。
高价值词汇High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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