Half the workforce are now (out) on strike.

现在有半数职工罢工。

《牛津词典》

The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign.

这次罢工带有民权运动的意味。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Miners in Zambia's northern copper belt have gone on strike.

赞比亚北部铜矿区的矿工们举行了罢工。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

In eighteen ninety-two, workers at a Carnegie Steel mill in the nearby town of Homestead went on strike.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

A half-million women took part in the Women's Strike for Equality on August twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy.

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On Wednesday, thousands of public employees in Greece held a strike to protest cost-cutting measures.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Villa substitute Thomas Hitzlsperger forced Taylor in action with a long-range strike late on - it was Villa's first shot on target of the afternoon.

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The union - which has called for a day-long strike on Wednesday - said it would take further action unless hotel owners agreed to a deal.

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"The problem is, in town - now that the buses are on strike - there's a very long queue, " she says.

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