picket
n
1 worker or group of workers stationed outside the entrance to a place of work during a strike to try to persuade others not to enter (罷工時守在工作地點門口阻攔他人上班的)糾察隊員, 糾察隊
Five pickets were injured in the scuffle. 在混戰中有五名罷工糾察隊員受傷.
[attrib 作定語]
a `picket line, ie a line of pickets, eg outside a factory 罷工糾察線.
2 small group of people on police duty or of soldiers sent out to watch the enemy 警察或士兵的警戒隊.
3 pointed stake set into the ground, eg as part of a fence or to tether a horse to 尖板條(作籬笆或栓馬用的)
[attrib 作定語]
a picket fence 尖板條柵欄. picket, v
1
(a) [Tn] place pickets at (a place of work) (在工作地點)設置罷工糾察隊
picket all the company's offices 在公司所有的辦公室附近設置罷工糾察隊.
(b) [I, Tn] act as a picket at (a place of work) 擔任罷工糾察員
Some of the union members did not want to picket. 工會的一些會員不想擔任罷工糾察員.
2 [Tn] place (guards) in position 布置(警衛)警戒.
3 [Tn] enclose (a place) with stakes or make secure with a stake 用尖板條圍住(某地); 用尖板條圍護.