manpower

• n. 人力；人力资源；劳动力

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.

有人可能会提出反对,认为没有足够的人力可用.

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. The police are seriously short of manpower.

警方人手严重不足.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. They drew the manpower from those people.

他们从那些人中召集劳动力.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. They haven't enough manpower.

他们人力不够.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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

可用的健壮人力没有军官预计的那么多。

来自柯林斯例句