英:[ˈraʊstəbaʊt]
美:[ˈraʊstəˌbaʊt]
英:[ˈraʊstəbaʊt]
美:[ˈraʊstəˌbaʊt]
roust·a·bout
raUst baUt
复数:roustabouts
noun
deckhand
longshoreman
an unskilled or semiskilled laborer especially in an oil field or refinery
a circus worker who erects and dismantles tents, cares for the grounds, and handles animals and equipment
a person with no permanent home or regular occupationalso: one who stirs up trouble
"普通的甲板手,码头工人",1868年,美国英语,可能来自 roust + about。但另一种理论将其与英国方言 rousing “粗糙的,毛茸茸的”联系起来,这个词也许与 rooster 有关。同时,比较一下 rouseabout “一个不安定的、漫游的人”(1746年),这个词似乎在澳大利亚和新西兰英语中仍然存在。在美国有着广泛的意义,包括“马戏团工人”(1931年); “油井上的体力劳动者”(1948年)。
The first known use of roustabout was in 1860
router1 of 2noun
a machine for cutting out the surface of wood or metal
router2 of 2noun
one that routesespecially: a device that sends data from one place to another within a computer network or between computer networks
rout1 of 3verb
to poke around with the snout : root entry 3
to dig or cut a groove in (as wood or metal)
to drive by force
routed out of their homes
to cause to come out especially from bed
rout2 of 3noun
a state of wild confusion and disorderly retreat
a disastrous defeat
rout3 of 3verb
to put to flight
to defeat completely
rout1 of 3verb
to poke around with the snout : root entry 3
to dig or cut a groove in (as wood or metal)
to drive by force
routed out of their homes
to cause to come out especially from bed
rout2 of 3noun
a state of wild confusion and disorderly retreat
a disastrous defeat
rout3 of 3verb
to put to flight
to defeat completely
roustaboutnoun
a person (as a deckhand, dock worker, or oil field worker) who does heavy labor
1 He climbed up the metal steps to the top of the substructure, an elevated base upon which sat the draw works and the doghouse for the roustabouts and the tool pushers.
2 He grounded it, if you can say that, in a phantasmagoric reiteration of American folk legend: drifters, thieves, rounders, jailbirds, horndogs, vigilantes, and roustabouts.
3 Calculating statistics to determine probability and risk, is the best job to have in 2010, while working on an oil rig as a roustabout is the worst, according to a study released on Tuesday.
本周二发布的一项研究报告称,2010年的最佳职业是从事数据计算、确定可能性和风险的精算师,最差职业是油井工人。
4 The lemonade thief has hit the roustabouts where it hurts, and they’re prepared to take action.
5 Although he also became a star on the silver screen with roles in Blue Hawaii and Roustabout, he will always be known as the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
尽管他也是一位电影明星,演过《蓝色夏威夷》、《码头搬运工》等,但人们永远铭记的,还是他摇滚天王的身份。
6 Gorshum Inniss, a 25-year-old roustabout with an easy smile and flashing dark eyes, is working on a crane crew lifting casing pipe for new wells, doubling what he earned working on a tugboat.
7 A crowd is gathering, mostly made up of displaced Benzini Brothers roustabouts.
8 As a former construction worker, he had the foundation, with some additional training, to begin working as a roustabout, assembling and repairing equipment in the offshore oil industry two years ago.
9 Thousands of oil workers known as roustabouts covered the hills and plains with oil rigs to extract the riches, turning this desert outpost into a boomtown.
10 Still, travelers keep coming — motorcyclists, desert roustabouts, lost families.
11 Chaos—candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot.
12 “Nightmare Alley” cast Power against type as an amoral carnival roustabout who steals a mentalist’s technique.
13 After spending three years doing roustabout work, Mr. Walters plans to go back to college in the fall to complete a degree in geology.
在做了三年的油田杂工后,沃尔特斯打算在秋天回到大学继续攻读一个地质学学位。
14 Tom Hanks alone appears and reappears as a cackling Victorian doctor, a slovenly Scottish hotelier, a tattooed tribal elder and a roustabout Irish novelist, complete with diamond stud and silver chain.
15 It's not elites who become roustabouts and end up working on oil rigs like the one I look at, which is in fact the one where the Deepwater Horizon blast took place.
16 The shale patch was the Wild West reborn, featuring poker games with $1000 buy-ins, boisterous strip clubs packed with roustabouts and brawling in the muddy streets illuminated by columns of flaring gas.
17 He spent the summer of 1958 working as a roustabout in the Oklahoma oil fields.
18 The man from the juice joint, who left the great mixing vat for no more than a few minutes, storms off to Uncle Al, convinced that roustabouts are responsible.
19 But many rig hands, roustabouts, pipe fitters and even some engineers are finding a surprising alternative in the utility-scale solar farms rising from the desert near the border with New Mexico.
20 An ancient roustabout is also looking through the stands but facing the other direction.
2 同ROUSEABOUT.
3 非技术工
4 非熟练工
5 打杂工
7 石油钻塔工人
9 杂工