navvies

英 [ˈnæviz]

美

n.  壮工; 苦力; (尤指)筑路工
navvy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 苦工;筑路工
  Anavvyis a person who is employed to do hard physical work, for example building roads or canals.
  1. ...a blackened young navvy, swinging a pickaxe in the sweating tunnel.
     在闷热的隧道里挥舞着丁字镐干活的一个肤色黝黑的年轻挖土工