中文翻译与英英解释 | n.
1.劳动。
2.努力，苦干。
3.工作;活计。
4.工人 (opp. capital; management); 〔集合词〕劳工，工人阶级，体力劳动者 (opp. professional)。
5.〔L-〕 (英国或英联邦成员国的)工党。
6.〔 pl. 〕 世事，俗务。
7.分娩，临产阵痛。
8.【航海】船只的剧烈摇动。
短语和例子
forced labour 强迫劳动。 free labour 【历史】自由民的劳动；美国未加入工会者的劳动。 hard labour 劳役，苦役。 mental labour 脑力劳动。 manual [physical] labour 体力劳动。 labour-consuming processes 重体力劳动作业。 cheap labour 廉价劳动力。 labour and capital 劳资双方。 skilled labour 熟练劳动。 surplus labour 【经济学】剩余劳动。 the Minister of L- and National Service 〔英国〕劳工大臣。 the ministry of L- and National Service 〔英国〕劳工部。 unskilled labour 不熟练工人。 the L- vote 支持工党的选票。 His labours are over. 他的一生结束了。 a woman in labour 临产的妇女。 difficult labour 难产。 natural labour 顺产。 labour of love 不取报酬自愿承担的工作，义务劳动，社会工作。 labour of Sisyphus ＝ Sisyphean labour 沉重而无结果的工作。 lost labour ＝ labour lost 徒劳。 labour leader 工会领袖。 (the) L- Leader 工党领袖。 labour of Hercules ＝ Herculean labour(s) 需要极大努力的工作。
vi.
1.工作；劳动。
2.努力(争取) (for) 出力。
3.分娩；产前阵痛。
4.(船只)剧烈摇动；颠簸；困难地前进。 labour at a task 埋头工作；辛苦地干。 labour after wealth 忙于赚钱。 labour for bread 挣饭吃。 labour at a problem 绞尽脑汁地做一道难题。 I laboured to understand him. 我努力想了解他。 The wheels laboured in the sand. 车轮在沙中空转(无法前进)。 The ship laboured in the heavy seas. 船在大海中吃力地前进。
vt.
1.使劳动；出力做。
2.详细论述。
3.使疲倦；麻烦。
4.〔古语〕耕种。
5.开(矿)。
短语和例子
I'll not labour the point. 这一点我就不详细谈了。 labour the reader with unnecessary detail 以不必要的细节来困惑读者。 labour for breath 觉得呼吸困难。 labour on the way 勉强前进。 labour one's way 克服困难前进。 labour under 在…下耗费精力[感到困难]。 labour under a delusion 想错，误解。
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| productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
同义词：labor, toil,
| | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
同义词：labor, working class, proletariat,
| | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
同义词：parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed,
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| undergo the efforts of childbirth
同义词：labor,
| | strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "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"
同义词：tug, labor, push, drive,
| | work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
同义词：labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil,
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例句与用法 | 1. | Old age disabled him for hard labour .
年迈使他不能胜任繁重工作了。
| | 2. | The labouring people are highly creative .
劳动人民富于创造精神。
| | 3. | He is worthy of the title of labour hero .
劳动英雄的称号，他当之无愧。
| | 4. | Everyone praised her for her love of labour .
人人都夸她爱劳动。
| | 5. | He has loved labour ever since he was a child .
他从小热爱劳动。
| | 6. | He was sentenced to five years at hard labour .
他被判五年劳役。
| | 7. | I leave you to your military labours .
我不打搅你的军事研究了。
| | 8. | The new scheme will save both time and labour ..
新方案既省时间又省劳力。
| | 9. | She would have been doing hard labour in prison .
她得关到监狱里去做苦工。
| | 10. | Typing at that salary is slave labour .
干薪金那么低的打字工作等于做苦工。
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