job

英 [d??b]

CET4TEM4考研CET6高頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?jobs;

job 【找吧】工作

job 工作，任務，物件

縮寫自短語jobbe of worke,即piece of work.詞源不詳，可能來自中古英語gobbe,一塊，詞源同gob,或來自chop,剁，砍，即砍下來的一塊。后詞義通用化，用于指一件事，一項工作或任務，物件等。

job 刺，戳

可能來自擬聲詞，詞源同jab.

job: job: [16] The origins of job are uncertain. Its likeliest source is an earlier and now obsolete noun job which meant ‘piece’. It is quite plausible that job of work, literally ‘piece of work’, could have become shortened to job. But where this earlier job came from is not known, so the mystery remains open.
job (n.): 1550s, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c. 1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Printing sense is from 1795. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927.
job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary]
On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might also ultimately be from gob. Job security attested by 1954; job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972.
Job: Biblical masc. proper name, from Hebrew Iyyobh, which according to some scholars is literally "hated, persecuted," from ayyabh "he was hostile to," related to ebhah "enmity." Others say it means "the penitent one."
job (v.): 1660s, "to buy and sell as a broker," from job (n.). Meaning "to cheat, betray" is from 1903. Related: Jobbed; jobbing.

2. He was fired from his job after roughing up a colleague.: 他因為對一位同事動粗而被開除了。

3. The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job.: 公眾從來不相信他有能力勝任這一職位。

4. The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed.: 美國就業市場的持續低迷被視為罪魁禍首。