英:[ˈti:mstə(r)]
美:[ˈtimstɚ]
英:[ˈti:mstə(r)]
美:[ˈtimstɚ]
team·ster
tim str
复数:teamsters
"驾驭一队马匹的人"(尤其是在运输货物方面),1776年,来自 team(n.)+ -ster。到1907年时,这个词被用于指代驾驶汽车的司机。
The first known use of teamster was in 1758
teamsternoun
a person who drives a team or truck
1 The Nevada State AFL-CIO said the fledgling “Save Our Jobs” drive represents some 87,000 Nevada nurses, bartenders, operating engineers, service employees, teamsters, auto industry and stage and theatrical workers.
2 “Fine springs, terminus of several wood roads, and a population of teamsters, stock and sheep men were found at Lousetown,” the marker says.
3 The set decorator needed images of couples in love to hang on the wall of the shop, and she approached me with a nearly 60-year-old teamster in tow and asked me to pose with him.
4 Longshoremen, railroad workers, teamsters, the lumpers who load trailers, warehouse workers, and retail clerks are all at risk of being forced into unemployment.
5 Bureau of Indian Affairs agent James Jenkins and 44 armed teamsters carried out the eviction.
6 And here the teamster, on his way to Portland market, would put up for the night; and, if a bachelor, might sit an hour beyond the usual bedtime, and steal a kiss from the mountain maid at parting.
还有那些去波特兰市场的牲口贩子也可能在这些地方过夜。如果他还是单身汉的话,还会陪他们晚睡上一小时,并在临别的时候从山上姑娘家那里得到一个吻别。
7 Unsubstantiated reports from imaginary hikers on the Tinley Creek Trail through Midlothian Meadows Forest Preserve indicate a ghastly grizzled teamster was spotted in the area where the power factory’s foundations still exist, bemoaning the fateful route that led to his untimely demise.
8 My teamster had the use of a Lincoln Town Car and a 15-passenger van.
9 The teamsters committed to spending “all resources necessary” to make the campaign successful.
10 Wealthy urban families used slaves as status symbols, dressing them in velvet coats and powdered wigs to work as domestic servants, while other slaves toiled in the streets as artisans, teamsters, and laborers.
11 A husky teamster had his arm around her waist and was whispering something in her ear.
12 He lived at the homestead and became a teamster on the National Pike.
13 That probably spells doom for the third major contender from the film, the British actor Graham, who goes toe-to-toe with Hoffa as the showboating teamster Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano.
14 Williams called Cooper a hard worker who worked a variety of jobs from a teamster on the Alaska pipeline to an escrow officer to pay the bills.
15 Somber wagon teamsters participated in a century-old parade days after one of their friends was killed by a motorist who rammed a truck into an exhibition.
16 “The teamsters driving the trucks would stop to read them. David’s writing was so beautiful. And he liked to write about women.”
17 The teamsters won 71 percent of the vote in February but less than half of workers voted.
18 When you are in the movie business you want your business card to say actor director star teamster driver. you just don't want it to say shareholder.
从事电影业的人愿意在名片上印演员、导演、明星、卡车司机、车手,就是不愿意说自己是股东。
19 The revised rules were supported by worker advocates and unions including those representing teamsters, machinists, utility workers, engineers, nurses and other health care workers, and school employees.
20 Unionized coal and steel miners, teamsters, bakers, tobacco workers and others have come from as far as Utah and Alabama Thursday, filling the Ohio Statehouse steps and lawn.