labour

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◎ 单词释义

n.劳动;劳工;分娩

v.努力;干苦力活;困难吃力地行进;反复说明

n.(英国)工党

第三人称单数:labours现在分词:labouring过去分词:laboured过去式:laboured

/">MPA英语词汇单词大全n.(名词)

    工作,劳动,体力劳动

    劳工,工人,劳力

    努力,苦干

    分娩,阵痛

    活计

    工人阶级,体力劳动者

    工党;英国工党

    任务

    生产

    为爱好而做的困难工作

    分娩期

    v.(动词)

      工作,劳动,干活

      使劳动

      出力做,努力(争取),出力,苦干,干苦力活

      详细论述,详细分析

      分娩,产前阵痛

      困难吃力地行进,艰难行进

      一再重复,反复解释(已说明的事)

      为…所蒙蔽

      麻烦,使…厌烦

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        =labor

        adj.(形容词)

          劳动者的

          与工党有关的

          n.(名词)

            [U]劳动,努力;工作 effort or work, especially tiring physical work;a piece of work

            [C]劳工,工人 workers, especially those who use their hands, considered as a group or class

            [U]分娩,(分娩时的)阵痛 the act of giving birth

            v.(动词)

              vi. 劳动;努力 work;try hard

              vi. 艰难行进 move, slowly and with difficulty

              vi. & vt. 详细地做 work out in detail;treat at great length

              noun

              1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

              e.g. his labor did not require a great deal of skill

              Synonym: labortoil

              2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

              e.g. there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field

              Synonym: laborworking classproletariat

              3. concluding state of pregnancy
              from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

              e.g. she was in labor for six hours

              Synonym: parturiencylaborconfinementlying-intravailchildbed

              verb

              1. undergo the efforts of childbirth

              Synonym: labor

              2. strive and make an effort to reach a goal

              e.g. 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

              Synonym: tuglaborpushdrive

              3. work hard

              e.g. She was digging away at her math homework
              Lexicographers drudge all day long

              Synonym: labortoilfagtravailgrinddrudgedigmoil

              in AM, use 美国英语用 labor

              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. ...the labour 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 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。

              2. (用手)劳动
              Someone who labours 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 you labour 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 skilled labour...
              拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。
              e.g. ...the struggle between capital and labour...
              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 their labour .

              e.g. 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。
              e.g. The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — 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 use Labour to refer to the Labour 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 vote Labour.
              他们都投工党的票。

              7. 工党的;支持工党的
              A Labour politician or voter is a member of a Labour Party or votes for a Labour Party.

              e.g. ...a Labour MP...
              工党下院议员
              e.g. Millions of Labour 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 you labour 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 you labour 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 to labour 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 into labour.
              我还以为这些疼痛意味着我要生了呢。
              e.g. Some women prefer to move about during labour.
              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,

              n.(名词)

              labour是英式英语,美式英语是labor。

              labour用作名词时基本意思是“劳动”“努力”,通常指需要花很大力气并使人疲乏的体力劳动,是不可数名词。也可指脑力劳动,但仅限于具体的特殊困难的事情。

              labour表示“艰苦的工作”或具体的“工作”“活计”时用复数;表示“工人”“劳工”的总称时用单数。

              labour作“分娩,(分娩时的)阵痛”解时,是不可数名词。

              “劳动节”可说Labour Day,也可说May Day,其前不用冠词。

              Labour等于Labour Party,指“工党”。

              v.(动词)

              labour的基本意思是“劳动”“工作”,多指日常辛勤的体力劳动,引申可表示“在…上过分花费精力”“仔细地分析解释”“缓慢而艰难地前进”等。

              labour既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。在表示“辛勤工作”时,其主语一般是人,后面可接动词不定式短语作状语。

              labour在表示“缓慢而艰难地前进”时,是不及物动词,常与介词through, up, along 等连用,其主语既可以是人,也可以是物。

              n.(名词)

              labour, toil, work

              这组词的共同意思是“劳动”“工作”。其区别在于:

              1.labour通常指需要花很大力气并使人疲乏的体力劳动,也可指脑力劳动,但仅限于具体特殊困难的事情。

              2.work含义很广,指任何有目的性的劳动,不论劳动的难易、轻重、时间的长短,是体力劳动还是脑力劳动,也可用来指机器等的操作。例如:

              He brought work home from the office.他把要做的工作从办公室带回了家。

              They had pretty hard work getting the roof of the storehouse repaired before the rain came.他们费了很大劲在下雨前将仓房顶修好。

              I have a lot of work to do.我有许多工作要做。

              This Association does social work.这个协会从事社会工作。

              3.toil一般表示繁重的长时间劳动,带有令人感到非常疲乏的意味。例如:

              After much toil the furniture was all in the moving van.经过一番劳累,家具都被搬进了搬运车。

              They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.他们为这个水利工程辛辛苦苦地干了几个月。

              The wealth of industrial society could only come from the toil of the masses.工业社会的财富来自群众的辛勤劳动。

              n.(名词)这个国家没有足够的熟练工人。

              The country has not enough skilled labours.

              The country has not enough skilled labour.

              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。

              ☆ 直接源自古英语的labor,意为劳动。

              以上就是本站详细整理的词语labour是什么意思的翻译解释,供大家参考一下。

labour的用法及例句:

He became a colossus of the labour movement.(他成了劳工运动中的一位巨人。)

The Labour Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery.(劳工部的数字突出显示了经济复苏的不稳定。)

The mines were manned by forced labour from conquered countries.(这些矿由来自被征服国家的强制劳工开采。)

The booklet contains information on pain relief during labour.(这本小册子介绍了减轻分娩疼痛的知识。)

There is an abundant supply of cheap labour.(有丰富的廉价劳动力供应。)

Her labour had lasted ten hours before the doctor arranged a Caesarean section.(她的分娩持续了10个小时后,医生才给她安排了剖腹产手术。)

He says the reduction of the labour force could be significant.(他说劳动力的缩减可能会有重大影响。)

The government revoked her husband's licence to operate migrant labour crews.(政府撤销了她丈夫经营流动劳工团队的许可证。)

The current division of labour between workers and management will alter.(劳资双方目前的劳动分配将会改变。)

Local companies pitched in with building materials and labour.(当地的公司支援了建筑材料和劳动力。)

用作动词(v.)

努力研究 work hard at
labour at sth

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。

用作名词(n.)

We have replaced human labour with machines.
我们用机器取代了人工劳动。They live by honest labour.
他们靠正当劳动生活。This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.
此项教育的目的在于实现脑力劳动与体力劳动相结合。We should try to reform criminals through labour rather than punish them.
我们应该尽量通过劳动改造罪犯,而不是惩罚他们。We regard labour as a matter of honour.
我们认为劳动是光荣的事。These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。A good day's labour got his appetite up.
劳动了一整天,他饭吃得特别香。He forced his slaves into hard labour.
他逼迫他的奴隶们干苦役。Helpless, we watched a whole season's labour and half a year's food destroyed.
我们眼睁睁地看着整整一季度的劳动和半年的粮食被毁掉了。I have a labour for you.
我有活叫你干。She blushed when they criticized her for her incorrect attitude toward domestic labour.
当他们批评她对家务劳动的不正确态度时,她脸红了。This was what they achieved after two years of ceaseless military labour.
这是他们两年不懈的军事训练取得的成果。The criminal was sentenced to eight years at hard labour.
那罪犯被判处8年劳役。Some of the labour leaders were also questioned by the reactionary police.
一些工会领导人也受到反动警察的查问。The labour men tries their best to dam the river.
劳动人民尽最大努力筑堤防洪。In front of the labour exchange there are many people desiring to get a job.
职业介绍所门前有许多想找工作的人。They are admired for their labour discipline.
他们由于劳动纪律严明而受到人们的钦佩。Labour Day falls on a Monday this year.
今年劳动节是星期一。My mind flashed back to last Labour Day.
我的脑海里又闪现出去年劳动节的情景。It was widely held that the Labour Party would get in, but it failed in the election.
人们普遍认为工党会上台,但它在选举中失败了。They forged the links with the Labour Party.
他们与工党建立了联系。It is important to locate new industries where labour and raw materials are easily available.
把新工业设置在劳动力和原材料都便利的地方是很重要的。To take it apart now would mean wasting a lot of labour.
现在把它拆开,就会浪费大量劳动力。Many children were exploited as cheap labour in factories.
许多儿童在工厂里作为廉价劳动力受到剥削。Most of the nation's labour are on strike.
该国的大部分工人正在罢工。They mediated the settlement between labour and management.
他们通过调停解决了劳资纠纷。When the building was completed, he paid off the labours.
大楼完工后,他就付了工资,把工人打发走了。It is a scientific labour.
这是一项艰巨的科学任务。His labours are now at an end, and he can rest.
现在,他的艰辛的工作已经结束,可以休息了。When can the people cease from their labours?
人们什么时候才能停止他们的辛苦劳作呢?On her way back from the fields, she suddenly doubled over with labour pains.
从地里回来时,她突然感到一阵阵痛,不由得蹲了下去。His wife is in labour.
他的夫人正在分娩。She was in labour for two hours before her baby was finally born.
她分娩了两个小时,才生下婴儿。She went into labour two weeks early.
她提前两周分娩了。

用作动词(v.)

The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.
编辑煞费苦心地修改那篇稿件,一直改到凌晨。They laboured along the bad road.
他们在那条难走的路上艰难地行进。

用作名词 (n.)

动词+~

begin the labour开始劳动carry labour做工作complete labour完成工作continue one's labour继续劳动cost labour消耗劳动力devote much labour付出许多努力do labour劳动,干活,做工divide labour分工draw labour吸收劳动力engaged in labour从事…劳动find labour找到工作finish labour完成工作,结束工作free from labour免于劳动,免于苦役gain from labour劳动所得handle labour处理工作leave labour歇工perform labour从事劳动pursue one's labour继续劳动quit labour停止劳动require labour需要劳动力save labour节省劳力simplify the labour简化工作spare no labour不遗余力want labour需要劳动waste a great deal of labour浪费大量劳动

形容词+~

backbreaking labour极其繁重的体力劳动cheap labour廉价劳动力creative labour创造性劳动daily labour日常劳动delicate labour细致的劳动demanding labour要求高的劳动dirty labour脏活,吃力不讨好的活disagreeable labour令人不愉快的劳动domestic labour家务活easy labour容易的劳动economic labour经济工作educational labour教育事业everyday labour日常劳动excessive labour过度的劳动exhausting labour令人筋疲力尽的劳动firsthand labour第一手工作forced labour强迫劳动hard labour艰苦的劳动honest labour诚实的劳动human labour人类劳动light labour轻微的劳动,轻活manual labour体力劳动mental labour脑力劳动necessary labour必要的劳动noble labour高尚的工作orderly labour有秩序的劳动organizational labour组织劳动outdoor labour室外劳动patient labour耐心的劳动physical labour体力劳动pleasant labour令人愉快的劳动productive labour生产劳动rough labour粗活taxing labour繁重的工作tiring labour令人筋疲力尽的工作tough labour困难的工作undercover labour秘密劳动useful labour有用的劳动,有益的劳动difficult labour难产natural labour自然分娩the first labour头胎the second labour二胎

名词+~

child labour童工day labour计日工farm labour农场劳动fieldlabour野外工作hand labour手工劳动life labour一生的工作muscle labour体力劳动night labour夜班prison labour狱中劳役reconstruction labour重建工作slave labour奴役

~+名词

labour clothes工作服labour conference工作会议labour power劳动力

介词+~

after one's labours完成工作后be in labour分娩by labour通过劳动woman in labour分娩中的妇女go into labour from因…而小产quality of labour劳动质量the hours of labour劳动时间produced with labour劳动所生产的

~+介词

labour of destruction破坏工作labour of duty本职工作labour of love不取报酬的劳动,义务劳动

用作动词 (v.)

~+名词

labour the point仔细地分析解释

~+副词

labour accidentally偶尔劳动labour appropriately适当地劳动labour arduously艰难地劳动labour artificially虚假地劳动labour assiduously不懈地劳动labour bodily整体地艰难移动labour casually马虎地劳动labour cautiously谨慎地艰难移动labour ceaselessly不断地劳动labour clumsily拙劣地劳动labour conditionally有条件地劳动labour consciously自觉地劳动labour cordially真心诚意地劳动labour daringly大胆地劳动labour diligently勤奋地劳动labour doubtfully难以预料地劳动labour economically有效益地劳动labour efficiently有效率地劳动labour extensively大量地劳动labour fastidiously挑剔地劳动labour frequently经常劳动labour healthfully有益于健康地劳动labour impetuously急躁地劳动labour incessantly不断地劳动labour indirectly间接劳动labour industriously辛勤地劳动labour insistently引人注意地劳动labour intelligibly可理解地艰难移动labour intentionally有目的地劳动labour interestingly有趣地劳动labour jerkily笨拙地劳动labour laboriously艰难地劳动labour logically情理之中地劳动labour needlessly不必要地劳动labour passively消极劳动labour patiently有耐性地劳动labour pointlessly无意义地劳动labour probably可能劳动labour professionally熟练地劳动labour provisionally暂且劳动labour readily欣然劳动labour recklessly不顾后果地劳动labour reluctantly不情愿地劳动labour rightly正当劳动labour satisfactorily令人满意地劳动labour simultaneously同时劳动labour skillfully技术高超地劳动labour slowly慢慢地劳动labour solely单独地劳动labour specially具体地劳动labour speciously似是而非地劳动labour spectacularly特殊地劳动labour speedily快速地劳动labour substantially实实在在地劳动labour symbolically象征性地劳动labour systematically系统地劳动labour tirelessly不知疲倦地劳动labour tremulously震颤地艰难移动labour temporarily暂时劳动labour unbelievably不可思议地劳动labour unconditionally无条件地劳动labour unexpectedly意外地劳动labour unhesitatingly毫不犹豫地劳动labour voluntarily自愿地劳动labour whole-heartedly全心全意地劳动

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labour at努力研究labour for为…而努力工作labour under苦于,被…所欺骗labour up艰难地向上labour with用…使…疲倦

Man goeth forth unto his worke: and to his labour.