labour
英['leɪbə(r)] 美['leɪbər]
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
"she was in labor for six hours"
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
"She tugged for years to make a decent living"
"We have to push a little to make the deadline!"
"She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
1.(辛苦的)劳动,劳作;(通常指)体力劳动
labour is very hard work, usually physical work.
e.g. ...thelabour of seeding, planting and harvesting...
播种、种植和收割的辛勤劳作
e.g. The chef at the barbecue looked up from hislabours; he was sweating.
正在烧烤台上忙活的厨师抬起头来;他的脸上直冒汗。
2.(用手)劳动
Someone wholabours works hard using their hands.
e.g. ...peasants labouring in the fields...
在地里劳作的农民
e.g. Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
她丈夫在厂里辛勤工作了17年。
3.艰苦地做;吃力地做
If youlabour to do something, you do it with difficulty.
labour什么意思
e.g. For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
他呕心沥血地建立一个宗教社区,至今已有25个年头。
e.g. ...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
在其他各种困难下艰苦工作的小伙子
4.(总称)劳工,工人
labour is used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group.
labour是什么意思
e.g. Latin America lacked skilledlabour...
拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。
e.g. ...the struggle between capital andlabour...
劳资斗争
5.劳动成果
The work done by a group of workers or by a particular worker is referred to as theirlabour .
e.g. Every man should receive a fair price for the product of hislabour...
每个人的劳动成果都应该获得合理的回报。
e.g. The unemployed cannot withdraw theirlabour — they have no power.
失业者没法罢工——他们没有这种实力。
6.(英国)工党
In Britain, people uselabour to refer to thelabour Party.
e.g. He believes that, historically,labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...
他相信一直以来工党在帮助人民改善生活方面表现最为出色。
e.g. They all votelabour.
他们都投工党的票。
7.工党的;支持工党的
Alabour politician or voter is a member of a labour Party or votes for a labour Party.
e.g. ...alabour MP...
工党下院议员
e.g. Millions oflabour voters went unrepresented.
数以百万计的工党支持者没有议员代表。
8.误以为;为…所蒙蔽
If youlabour under a delusion or misapprehension, you continue to believe something which is not true.
e.g. She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
她有一个错觉,以为我知道自己在做什么。
e.g. You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
你似乎存在相当大的误解。
9.一再重申;反复说明
If youlabour a point or an argument, you keep making the same point or saying the same thing, although it is unnecessary.
labour的近义词
e.g. I don't want tolabour the point but there it is.
我不想反复重申,但还是不得不说。
10.分娩;临盆
labour is the last stage of pregnancy, in which the baby is gradually pushed out of the womb by the mother.
e.g. I thought the pains meant I was going intolabour.
我还以为这些疼痛意味着我要生了呢。
e.g. Some women prefer to move about duringlabour.
有些女人喜欢在分娩期间下床走动。
1. 劳工:生产要素,顾而这之,是生产时候所需要的原素,主要有要四类,分别是土地(Land)、劳工(labour)、资本(Capital)和企业家职能(Entreperneurship). 土地是指自然资源,劳工代表人力资源、资本是人造资源,而企业家职能则是企业中最重要的责任,
2. 劳动力:它直接有助于产品以合理价格迅速销出(distribution),在稳定国内市场(home market)的同时,使产品能以有竞争力(competitive)的价格出口进入国际市场;它给人以新的消费观,从而大大地提高人们的生活标准;它增加了市场需求(demand),扩大了劳动力(labour)市场,有效地扩大了
3. 工党:周二民调显示,保守党民调支持率达37%,工党(labour)支持率29%,自由民主党(Liberal Democrats)为26%. ComRes指出,保守党将取得264席,距离成为多数党还缺32个席次. 大选结果明确后应当会降低政治不确定性,并降低风险溢价,
labour is not only a necessity but also a pleasure.
劳动不仅是人生所必需的,而且是一种乐趣。
It takes a lot of labour to build a railway.
修筑一条铁路要花费许多劳动力。
A vigorous labour movement began that winter.
那年冬天,展开了蓬蓬勃勃的劳工运动。
The labour question must come to the fore next session.
劳工问题必将成为下届会议的热门话题。
She was in labour for three hours.
她的分娩过程长达三小时。
We labour for the happiness of mankind.
我们为人类的幸福而努力。
The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.
编辑煞费苦心地修改稿件,一直干到清晨。
Miners labour in the bowels of earth.
矿工们在地底下劳动。
The old man laboured up the hillside.
老人吃力地登上山腰。
The horses laboured up the steep slope.
那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。
There is no need to labour the argument.
该论据无需详细说明或讨论。
You needn't labour a point that is perfectly plain.
这点很明显,你用不着讲个没完。
He was elected to the leadership of the labour Party.
他被选为工党的领导人。
manual labour (= work using your hands)
体力劳动
The price will include the labour and materials.
此价格中包含人工费和材料费。
The company wants to keep down labour costs .
公司想保持低劳动成本。
The workers voted to withdraw their labour (= to stop work as a means of protest) .
工人投票决定罢工以示抗议。
He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp (= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) .
他被判处两年劳改。
He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.
他工作了一天疲惫不堪,便直接上床休息了。
a shortage of labour
劳动力的短缺
Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour .
雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。
Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive.
修理需要熟练技工,人工费会很昂贵。
good labour relations (= the relationship between workers and employers)
良好的劳资关系
Jane was in labour for ten hours.
简分娩花了十个小时。
...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...
播种、种植和收割的辛勤劳作
The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.
正在烧烤台上忙活的厨师抬起头来;他的脸上直冒汗。
...peasants labouring in the fields...
在地里劳作的农民
Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
她丈夫在厂里辛勤工作了17年。
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
他呕心沥血地建立一个宗教社区,至今已有25个年头。
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
在其他各种困难下艰苦工作的小伙子
Latin America lacked skilled labour...
拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。
...the struggle between capital and labour...
劳资斗争
Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour...
每个人的劳动成果都应该获得合理的回报。
The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour 'u2014 they have no power.
失业者没法罢工——他们没有这种实力。
He believes that, historically, labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...
他相信一直以来工党在帮助人民改善生活方面表现最为出色。
They all vote labour.
他们都投工党的票。
...a labour MP...
工党下院议员
Millions of labour voters went unrepresented.
数以百万计的工党支持者没有议员代表。
She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
她有一个错觉,以为我知道自己在做什么。
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
你似乎存在相当大的误解。
I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
我不想反复重申,但还是不得不说。
I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
我还以为这些疼痛意味着我要生了呢。
Some women prefer to move about during labour.
有些女人喜欢在分娩期间下床走动。
Don't labour at your writing, try to make it seem easy and natural.
不要对你所写的东西过分雕琢,要把文章写得简明自然。
Why should you labour for the boss of the company when he gives you no reward?
公司的老板不给你钱,你为什么还要为他卖命呢?
They laboured for the happiness of mankind.
他们为人类的幸福而努力工作。
You are labouring under an error if you think these rules will always be valid.
如果你认为这规章永久适用,那你就错了。
People labour under the ignorance and superstition.
人们因愚昧和迷信而受害。
The car laboured up the hill.
汽车艰难地爬上山去。
They laboured through the thick forest and up the steep hill.
他们艰难地穿过茂密的森林,爬上陡峭的山坡。
His classmates were labouring with elementary algebra.
他的同学们正在绞尽脑汁地演算初等代数题。
labour sb with sthDon't labour the reader with unnecessary detail.
不要用不必要的细节使读者疲倦。
Man goeth forth unto his worke: and to his labour.
出自:Bible (AV): PsalmsPhysics..they took to be unacceptably hard mental labour.
出自:D. FrancisThey..labour Honey to sustain their Lives.
出自:Dryden误 The country has not enough skilled labours.
正 The country has not enough skilled labour.
析 labour作“工人”“劳工”解时,是“工人”的总称,作不可数名词,没有复数形式。