labour 英 ['leɪbə(r)] 　 美 [ˈlebɚ]

labour

labour　 英 ['leɪbə(r)] 美 [ˈlebɚ]

n. 劳动力，人工；分娩　 vi. 劳动；分娩；努力地前进　

进行时:labouring　 过去式:laboured　 过去分词:laboured　 第三人称单数:labours　 名词复数:labours　

manual labour　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。

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  • n. 劳动力，人工；分娩
  • vi. 劳动；分娩；努力地前进

  • 1. manual labour

    体力劳动

  • 2. The price will include the labour and materials.

    此价格中包含人工费和材料费。

  • 3. The company wants to keep down labour costs.

    公司想保持低劳动成本。

  • 4. a shortage of labour

    劳动力的短缺

  • 5. Jane was in labour for ten hours.

    简分娩花了十个小时。

  • 6. She went into labour early.

    她早产了。

  • 7. They laboured 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。

  • 8. We laboured all day in the fields.

    我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。

  • labour chiefly British English spelling of labor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or. With capital L-, short for "the British Labour Party," it is attested from 1892; the party name itself is from 1886.
la·bour ★ AWL ( especially US labor ) / ˈleɪbə(r) ; NAmE ˈleɪbər / noun , verb labour labours laboured labouring noun ★ work 劳动 1 ★ [uncountable ] work, especially physical work 劳动；（尤指）体力劳动 ◆ 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。 2 [countable ,  usually plural ] ( formal) a task or period of work 任务；（一段时间的）工作 ◆ 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。 people who work 劳动者 3 ★ [uncountable ] the people who work or are available for work in a country or company （统称）劳工，工人；劳动力 ◆ 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 having baby 分娩 4 [uncountable ,  countable ,  usually singular ] the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby 分娩期；分娩；生产 ◆ Jane was in labourfor ten hours. 简分娩花了十个小时。 ◆ She went into labourearly. 她早产了。 ◆ labour pains 分娩时的阵痛 politics 政治 5 Labour [singular + singular or plural verb ] ( abbr.Lab. ) the British Labour Party 英国工党 ◆ He always votes Labour. 他老是投工党的票。 ◆ Labour was/were in power for many years. 工党曾执政多年。 IDIOM a ˌlabour of ˈlove a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary 为爱好而做的困难工作 verb struggle 奋斗 1 [intransitive ] to try very hard to do sth difficult 努力做（困难的事） labour(away) ◆ He was in his study labouring away over some old papers. 他在书房里潜心研究一些旧材料。 labourto do sth ◆ They laboured 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。 work hard 努力工作 2 [intransitive ] to do hard physical work 干苦力活 ◆ We laboured all day in the fields. 我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。 ◆ ( old-fashioned) the labouring classes (= the working class) 工人阶级 move with difficulty 吃力地行进 3 [intransitive ] (+ adv./prep.) to move with difficulty and effort 困难吃力地行进 SYN struggle ◆ The horses laboured up the steep slope. 那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。 IDIOM labour the ˈpoint to continue to repeat or explain sth that has already been said and understood 一再重复，反复解释（已说明的事） PHRASAL VERB ˈlabour under sth ( formal) to believe sth that is not true 为…所蒙蔽 ◆ to labour under a misapprehension/delusion, etc. 有误解、错觉等 ◆ He's still labouring under the impression that he's written a great book. 他仍然有这样的错觉，以为自己撰写了一部巨著。 la·bour / ˈleɪbə(r) ; NAmE ˈleɪbər /
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