• n. 人力；人力資源；勞動力

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.

有人可能會提出反對,認為沒有足夠的人力可用.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The police are seriously short of manpower.

警方人手嚴重不足.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. They drew the manpower from those people.

他們從那些人中召集勞動力.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. They haven't enough manpower.

他們人力不夠.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

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

可用的健壯人力沒有軍官預計的那么多。

來自柯林斯例句