Those who are used solely for manual labor or menial tasks at the behest of others. An allusion to a passage in the Bible (Joshua 9:21), in which the Gibeonites were condemned to servitude under the Israelites. Under the dictatorship, members of the religious minority were not allowed to be anything but hewers of wood and drawers of water to the ruling class.
This scholarship intends to show that, given the right tools and opportunities, the people in this region are destined to become more than hewers of wood and drawers of water.
机译:这项奖学金旨在表明,如果有合适的工具和机会,这个地区的人们注定不会成为伐木工人和挑水工。
例句
hewers of wood and drawers of water
劈柴挑水的人,做苦活的人(出自《圣经》)
属类:综合句库-
There must always be hewers of wood and drawers of water;but they should not be regarded as something less than human.
不论什么时候总得有干苦力活的人,但不应把他们看成是低人一等。
属类:综合句库-
hewers of wood and drawers of water
劈柴挑水的人,做苦活的人(出自《圣经》)
属类:综合句库-
There must always be hewers of wood and drawers of water;but they should not be regarded as something less than human.