农民工的英文：peasant-worker
词汇解析
1、peasant
英['pez(ə)nt]；美['pɛznt]
n. 农民；乡下人
例：It is the lament of an impoverished peasant.
它是一个已贫穷化的农民的哀词。
例：They finally persuaded the peasant to send his daughter to school.
他们最后说服了那个农民送他的女儿去上学。
2、worker
英['wɜːkə]；美['wɝkɚ]
n. 工人；劳动者；卜渣职蚁
n. (英)沃克
例：He is a hard worker and a skilled gardener.
他是一个工作努力的人，一个技艺娴熟的园艺工。
例：She ate her sandwich alongside several other office workers taking their break.
她在其他几位正在休息的办公室人员旁边吃自己的三明治。
扩展资料
一、peasant的用法
1、peasant的意思是“培弊野农民”,主要指发展中国家及旧时小农经济的自耕农。
2、peasant可用作贬义指粗鲁配喊的未受过教育的人。因此,不可用于指欧、美、日本等发达国家的农民。
二、关于peasant的短语
1、Peasant wedding 农民的婚礼
2、peasant woman 女农民的旧称
3、peasant workers 农民工 ; 和谐社会
4、Peasant Agriculture 小农农业
5、peasant lace 简朴花边
6、Peasant Economy 小农经济
7、Poor peasant 贫下中农 ; 贫农
off-farm workers是一种说法.
但我还是比较喜欢型纳migrant rural workers 或者
migrant workers,顺口~~
网上有篇文章,你看一下.
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“农民工”的英译可谓五花八门，仅笔者见过的就有peasant workers，migrant workers，rural workers，farmers-turned construction workers等。笔者认为，上述译法均有不足。早在上个世纪七十年代，许多英语母语人士就指出，将汉语中“农民”译为peasant不妥，应该用farmer一词。当时的中学英语课本中就有the poor and lower-middle peasants（贫下中农）的说法。而rural workers的意思则不够明确，很容易产生歧义，人们很容易将其理解为rural labours；至于farmers-turned construction workers的译法，其主要问题是界定范围太窄，不能涵盖“农民工”的所指范围。桐租指migrant workers这一译法国内英文媒体常采用，但九十年代末联合国的一份文件（Fact Sheet No.24, The Rights of Migrant Workers）却给出了如下定义：The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national. 显然，migrant workers此处是指“国外来的打工者”。
其实，英语中就有off-farm income，off-farm employment及off-farm work等说法，其中off-farm work是指农民离开土地到城里所从事的工作，如果这类工作是季节性的，可以说seasonal off-farm work，如果是长期工则说permanent off-farm work。请看下面的例句：
1）However, in almost all cases the off-farm work was of a seasonal nature, lasting no more than 6 to 8 weeks.
2）Factory work provided most of the off-farm work but many part-time farmers were tradesmen and managers in business.
3）The type of off-farm work varied but many were in an oil-related industry, working shifts at Flotta oil terminal.
综上所局配述笔者认为，将汉语中的“农民工”翻译为off-farm workers比较合适。
migrant workers 民工.英语学习报纸上都是这么说的.
farmer worker
farmer
