sweatshop

[US]/'swetʃɒp/
[UK]/'swɛtʃɑp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 血汗工廠,勞動條件惡劣
Word Forms

Real-world Examples

Maria Hernandez worked in an illegal, clandestine sweatshop before the earthquake and is now press chief for the union.

地震前,瑪麗婭·埃爾南德斯在一家非法的祕密血汗工廠工作,現任工會新聞主任。

Source: Listen to this 3 Advanced English Listening

And they don't love me because I'm a synthetic monokini made in a factory by a sweatshop baby.

他們不喜歡我是因爲我的合成纖維比基尼是血汗工廠裏的童工製作的。

Source: "Reconstructing a Lady" Original Soundtrack

A high proportion will be from ethnic minorities, many being employed illegally at low wage levels and under sweatshop conditions.

少數民族佔很大比例,很多人非法受僱,工資很低,且工作條件極差。

Source: Recite for the King Volume 4 (All 60 lessons)

Now you should be thinking, like, sweatshops, New York City.

希瑟:現在你應該想到紐約市的血汗工廠。

Source: Radio Laboratory

If they're working in a sweatshop, that is.

喜歡把他們當苦力。

Source: South Park Season 01

Many of these children went out to work in  sweatshops and other unregulated workplaces.

這些孩子中的許多人出去在血汗工廠和其他不受監管的工作場所工作。

Source: Charming history

Sounds very fair. the sweatshops could learn a thing or two.

聽上去很公平嘛 多勞多得。

Source: Gossip Girl Season 1

Sounds like a sweatshop, Dad. -No, I'll give her a little fan.

像是個血汗工廠 -不,我會給她個小風扇。

Source: Everybody Loves Raymond Season 2

Among those hardest hit by the quake were women garment workers, who worked in sweatshops concentrated in the heart of Mexico City.

受災最嚴重的是服裝廠的女工們,因爲她們服務的血汗工廠都集中在墨西哥城的中心。

Source: Listen to this 3 Advanced English Listening

Do you realize, by owning a 3D printer, we are reclaiming the manufacturing process and taking jobs back from sweatshops in China?

你有沒有意識到擁有這臺3D打印機我們就能奪回生產過程並搶回中國血汗工廠工人的工作?

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 6

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