首页英语词典jobjob英英释意

job

英 [dʒɒb]
  • n. 工作;职业
  • vt. 承包;代客买卖
  • vi. 做零工
  • n. (Job)人名;(英)乔布;(法、葡)若布;(?-1605)约伯〈俄〉俄罗斯正教会莫斯科牧首。;(德、塞、捷、荷、意)约布

英英释意


1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
"he's not in my line of business"
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;
"estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"
"the job of repairing the engine took several hours"
"the endless task of classifying the samples"
"the farmer's morning chores"
3. the performance of a piece of work;
"she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"
"he gave it up as a bad job"
4. the responsibility to do something;
"it is their job to print the truth"
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working;
"he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved;
"she and her husband are having problems"
"it is always a job to contact him"
"urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
8. a damaging piece of work;
"dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"
"the barber did a real job on my hair"
9. a crime (especially a robbery);
"the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
10. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit