English → Chinese
job
/BrE dʒɒb 
, AmE dʒɑb /
▶[Jobs] A noun
1 (post) 工作;
to have a job 有工作;
to have a job in local government/at a hospital 在当地政府任职／在一家医院工作;
a teaching/civil service/temporary/permanent/part-time/full-time job 教学／公务员／临时／固定／兼职／全职工作;
to get/look for a job 找到／找工作;
to take a job as a waitress/shop assistant 当服务员／店员;
to apply for a job 求职;
to give/offer sb a job 为某人提供工作;
to give up one's job 辞去工作;
to lose one's job/be out of a job 失业;
to know one's job 做工作在行;
to do one's job 做分内事;
on the job (working) 在工作时; British informal (having sex) 在性交;
to lie down or fall asleep on the job figurative 怠工;
jobs for the boys British informal derogatory 为亲信安排的工作;
job losses 失业
2 (piece of work) 活儿;
to have a job for sb (to do); 有活儿给某人（做）;
to find sb a job (to do), to find a job for sb (to do); 给某人找事情做;
she found little jobs to do to keep herself busy 她找了些零活干，为的是不让自己闲下来
3 (matter) 事情;
the job in hand 手头的事情
4 (assignment) 任务;
to have the job of doing sth; 承担做某事的任务;
to give sb the job of doing sth; 把做某事的任务分派给某人;
to do a job for sb; 为某人做事;
to do the job informal 管用;
I need something to steady the table with — ah, this book should do the job 我要用东西把桌子垫稳──啊，这本书应该管用
5 (result of work) 成果;
a good/poor/lovely job 干得不错／干得很糟／招人喜欢的活儿;
to make or do a good or great job of sth/doing sth 把某事／做某事做得很棒;
to do a good job of work British 干得不错;
just the job! British informal 要的就是这个！
6 (duty) 职责;
it's sb's job to do sth; 该由某人负责做某事;
that's not my job 这件事不归我管
7 (function) 作用;
to have the job of doing sth; 具有做某事的作用;
the job of the liver is to … 肝脏的功能是…
8 informal (situation) 情况;
it's a good job (that) … (mainly British) 幸好…;
(and a) good job too! (mainly British) 真是件好事！;
to give sb/sth up as a bad job 因没有希望而放弃某人／某事物;
to make the best of a bad job 在困难条件下尽力而为
9 (difficult activity) 难做的事;
a real job 很费力的事情;
quite a job 很难做的事情;
to have a job doing sth or to do sth; 费力地做某事;
to be a job doing sth or to do sth; 做某事很费力;
he had a hard job to make himself heard 他颇费了些力气才让别人听到他讲话;
you've got a real job on there! 这回你可得费点劲儿了！
10 informal (object) 东西;
the car was a fast-looking job 那辆车看上去跑得很快
11 informal (crime) 犯罪行为 [尤指盗窃或抢劫];
to do a job 行窃;
to pull off a job 抢劫;
an inside job 内部人员作的案;
a bank job 银行抢劫案
12 Computing [作为单元处理的] 作业;
you need to cancel all pending print jobs 你得取消所有待打印任务
B intransitive verb
pres p jobbing pt, pp jobbed
1 (do casual work) 打零工;
she's just jobbing at the moment 她眼下正在打零工
2 (do piece-work) 做计件工作