apprentices

英 [əˈprentɪsɪz]

美 [əˈprentɪsɪz]

n.  学徒; 徒弟
v.  使某人当(某人的)学徒
apprentice的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 学徒；徒弟
  Anapprenticeis a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
  1. I started off as an apprentice and worked my way up...
     我从学徒开始干起，逐步上升。
  2. He left school at 15 and trained as an apprentice carpenter.
     他15岁辍学，当上木工学徒。
• VERB 使拜师于；使当…的学徒
  If a young personis apprenticed tosomeone, they go to work for them in order to learn their skill.
  1. I was apprenticed to a builder when I was fourteen.
     14岁时，我拜一个建筑工人为师当学徒。

双语例句

• Unions are now spreading to private universities; though Yale and Cornell, where university administrators and some faculty argue that PhD students who teach are not workers but apprentices, have resisted union drives.
  而真正的工会兴起还是近几年的事。如今，工会也深入到私立大学。在耶鲁和康奈尔大学，行政管理人员和教师说博士不能算是正式员工，只能是学徒而已。
• Who's show did Borden and Angier attend when they were still apprentices?
  波登和安杰尔两人还是学徒时，去看了谁的表演？
• As master craft workers, they imparted the knowledge of their trades to apprentices and journeymen.
  作为师傅，工匠们将自己的手艺传授给徒弟和雇工。
• The master initiates the apprentices, but they can sharpen their skills only through their own efforts.
  师傅领进门，修行看各人。
• They possess their own means of production and hire no workers, or only one or two apprentices or helpers.
  他们自有生产手段，不雇工，或者只雇一二个学徒或助手。
• My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades.
  我的哥哥们都拜师学了各种不同的行业。
• On the occasion, servants, apprentices and other employees staying away from their homes were encouraged by their employers to visit their mothers and honor them.
  值此，仆人，学徒工和其他员工从家里住了被他们的雇主鼓励看望他们的母亲和孝敬他们。
• He wanted to fight the masters who starved their apprentices.
  他要同那些不让学徒吃饱的师傅斗争。
• I had known her for years, watched her raise countless apprentices, and now she was a mere puppet for some demon.
  我曾经认识她很多年，亲眼目睹她指导了一代又一代的学徒，但现在她却成为了某个恶魔手中的玩偶。
• All other apprentices are entitled to the national minimum wage for their age.
  其他所有学徒都有权享受相应年龄段的最低薪水。