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.
一个人失业时间愈长，他找到另一份与他的上一份工作相称的职位的机会就更小。
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.
当总失业率为5%时，一个典型的失业者将在一到两个月内找到新工作。
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.
当他帮忙照顾妻子的父母的时候，这对夫妇偶尔还是会为了谁去遛狗这样的事情而吵破了头，即使他已经没了工作。

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.
能够输出的功就是,我们可以得出来,曲线所包围的面积。
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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.
所以理查在学习语言的艺术,虽局限于种族,就是他在家里受尽磨难时也在学习语言的魔力。
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Yet a third of the workforce is out of work, and the share is rising.
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