out of work

失业； (机器)出问题

People are out of work. They are hurting.(人们正在失去工作，经受痛苦。)

Hundreds were thrown out of work.(数以百计的人遭到解雇。)

The region has also been hit hard by cutbacks in defence spending, which has left thousands out of work.(该地区也深受造成数千人失业的国防开支缩减的打击。)

He was out of work and living in squalor.(他失业了，生活在脏乱不堪的环境中。)

A: Why were you out of work for so long?(你为什么这么久没有工作呢？)

Out of work journalists band together and create some killer blogs.(失业记者联合在一起，成立一些杀手级博客。)

Millions of people are still out of work.(数百万人依然没有工作。)

Being out of work causes poverty.(失业导致贫困。)

They say, 'I'm out of work.(他们常说：我现在失业了，但是我在积极的找工作。)

He'd been out of work and he chose to break into a house to get money for his family.(他失业了，并选择入室抢劫来赚钱支撑家庭。)

adj

1. not having a job

e.g. idle carpenters
jobless transients
many people in the area were out of work

Synonym: idlejobless

1. 失业的；下岗的
Someone who is out of work does not have a job.

e.g. ...a town where half the men are usually out of work.
通常有半数男子失业的城镇
e.g. ...an out of work actor.
没戏演的演员