mid-14c., "manual worker," especially an unskilled one, agent noun from labor (v.). Meaning "member of the working class, member of the lowest social rank" is from c. 1400.
权威例句
1. The typical laborer now sits in front of a bank of dials.
现如今,工人通常都是坐在一排仪表前。
2. Her husband had been a farm laborer.
她丈夫以前是个农场雇工。
3. He worked as a casual laborer and did not earn much.
他当临时工,没有赚多少钱.
4. Look at Jimmy Bradock, down to being a day laborer.
瞧瞧杰米·布拉多克,已经落魄到做临时工的地步了.
5. His hands were embrowned like those of a common laborer.