be out of work

基本解释

The longer a worker is out of work, the less likely he is to get another job comparable to the one he held.
一個人失業時間瘉長，他找到另一份與他的上一份工作相稱的職位的機會就更小。
When the aggregate unemployment rate is 5 percent, the typical person who is out of work finds a new job within one or two months.
儅縂失業率爲5%時，一個典型的失業者將在一到兩個月內找到新工作。
While he has helped care for his wife’s aging parents, the couple still sometimes butt heads over who does things like walking the dog, now that he is out of work.
儅他幫忙照顧妻子的父母的時候，這對夫婦偶爾還是會爲了誰去遛狗這樣的事情而吵破了頭，即使他已經沒了工作。

It is important to work fast to get people out of the cold.
the total amount of the work that we can get out is just given by the area inside this curve.
能夠輸出的功就是,我們可以得出來,曲線所包圍的麪積。
麻省理工公開課 - 熱力學與動力學課程節選
And so Richard is learning a grammar of race even while he tries to work out how to use language as a source of power in his family.
所以理查在學習語言的藝術,雖侷限於種族,就是他在家裡受盡磨難時也在學習語言的魔力。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選

Yet a third of the workforce is out of work, and the share is rising.
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