1 N-COUNT 工作；职业；职位 A job is the work that someone does to earn money. 工作；职业；职位
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Once I'm in America I can get a job.
我一到美国就能找到工作。
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Thousands have lost their jobs.
数以千计的人失业了。
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I felt the pressure of being the first woman in the job.
作为第一个从事这一工作的女性，我感到有压力。
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...overseas job vacancies.
海外职位空缺
SYN position, post, function, capacity
2 N-COUNT [n NOUN] （一项）任务；（一份）工作，活儿 A job is a particular task. （一项）任务；（一份）工作，活儿
3 N-COUNT [usually with poss] 职责；责任；作用 The job of a particular person or thing is their duty or function. 职责；责任；作用
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Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness.
它们的主要功效是保健而非治病。
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His next job is to get us to the World Cup finals.
他接下来的任务是带领我们闯入世界杯决赛圈。
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Drinking a lot helps the kidneys do their job.
多饮水有助于肾脏正常工作。
SYN task, concern, duty, charge
4 N-SING [usually adjective NOUN] （干得出色的）活儿 If you say that someone is doing a good job, you mean that they are doing something well. In British English, you can also say that they are making a good job of something. （干得出色的）活儿
5 N-SING [usu N -ing, NOUN to-infinitive] 难做的工作；非常费力的事 If you say that you have a job doing something, you are emphasizing how difficult it is. 难做的工作；非常费力的事 [emphasis]
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He may have a hard job selling that argument to investors.
他可能得磨破嘴皮才能让投资者接受那个观点。
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With all these different pensions, you're going to have a job to keep track.
这么多不同种类的养老金，你想要了解可得费点劲儿。
SYN difficulty, problem, hassle [informal] , trouble
6 See also: jobbing day job hatchet job on-the-job
7 PHRASE 为有关系的人安排的职位 If you refer to work as jobs for the boys, you mean that the work is unfairly given to someone's friends, supporters, or relations, even though they may not be the best qualified people to do it. 为有关系的人安排的职位 [British, disapproval]
SYN cronyism, favouritism, nepotism
8 PHRASE 正想要的东西；求之不得的东西 If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed. 正想要的东西；求之不得的东西 [British, informal]
SYN perfect, excellent, ideal, supreme
9 PHRASE 在工作；在干活儿；在工作岗位上 If someone is on the job, they are actually doing a particular job or task. 在工作；在干活儿；在工作岗位上
10 it's a good job→see: good the job in hand→see: hand
Quotations
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job Malcolm S. Forbes
Everyone sees life through their job. To the doctor the world is a hospital, to the broker it is a stock exchange, to the lawyer a vast criminal court Alasdair Gray Janine
McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector Douglas Coupland Generation X
| Thesaurus | job Also look up: |
| N. | employment, occupation, profession, vocation, work 1 assignment, duty, obligation, task 2 3 |
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