labor
labor 英 ['leɪbə(r)] 美 [ˈlebɚ]
进行时:laboring 过去式:labored 过去分词:labored 第三人称单数:labors 名词复数:labors
- Although the word labor seems to suggest tough, physical work that makes you sweat, any type of work, whether physical or mental, can be considered labor.
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1. manual labor
体力劳动
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2. The price will include the labor and materials.
此价格中包含人工费和材料费。
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3. The company wants to keep down labor costs.
公司想保持低劳动成本。
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4. a shortage of labor
劳动力的短缺
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5. Jane was in labor for ten hours.
简分娩花了十个小时。
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6. She went into labor early.
她早产了。
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7. They labored for years to clear their son's name.
他们为洗刷儿子的罪名努力争取了许多年。
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8. We labored all day in the fields.
我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。
- labor (n.) c. 1300, "a task, a project" (such as the labors of Hercules); later "exertion of the body; trouble, difficulty, hardship" (late 14c.), from Old French labor "toil, work, exertion, task; tribulation, suffering" (12c., Modern French labeur), from Latin labor "toil, exertion; hardship, pain, fatigue; a work, a product of labor," a word of uncertain origin. Some sources venture that it could be related to labere "to totter" on the notion of "tottering under a burden," but de Vaan finds this unconvincing. The native word is work.
- labor (v.) late 14c., "perform manual or physical work; work hard; keep busy; take pains, strive, endeavor" (also "copulate"), from Old French laborer "to work, toil; struggle, have difficulty; be busy; plow land," from Latin laborare "to work, endeavor, take pains, exert oneself; produce by toil; suffer, be afflicted; be in distress or difficulty," from labor "toil, work, exertion" (see labor (n.)).
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