• n. 人力；人力資源；勞動(dòng)力

比喻用法。

manpower (n.)

1855, from man (n.) + power (n.). Proposed in 1824 as a specific unit of measure of power.

1. It may be objected that not enough manpower is available.

有人可能會(huì)提出反對(duì),認(rèn)為沒(méi)有足夠的人力可用.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

2. The police are seriously short of manpower.

警方人手嚴(yán)重不足.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. They drew the manpower from those people.

他們從那些人中召集勞動(dòng)力.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

4. They haven't enough manpower.

他們?nèi)肆Σ粔?

來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected.

可用的健壯人力沒(méi)有軍官預(yù)計(jì)的那么多。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句