labor

英 [ˈleɪbə]

美 [ˈleɪbər]

n.  劳动，努力；工作; 劳工，工人; 分娩，（分娩时的）阵痛
vi.  努力争取(for); 苦干; 详细分析（指引擎）缓慢而困难地运转

复数：labors　现在分词：laboring　过去式：labored　第三人称单数：labors　过去分词：labored　

考研BEC

BNC.17075 / COCA.1123

柯林斯词典

• → see:labour

英英释义

noun

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  1. his labor did not require a great deal of skill
  Synonym:labourtoil
• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  1. he prepared for great undertakings
  Synonym:undertakingprojecttask
• a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
  1. there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
  Synonym:labourworking classproletariat
• an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
  Synonym:labor movementtrade union movement
• concluding state of pregnancy
  1. she was in labor for six hours
  Synonym:parturiencylabourconfinementlying-intravailchildbed

verb

• undergo the efforts of childbirth
  Synonym:labour
• strive and make an effort to reach a goal
  1. She tugged for years to make a decent living
  2. We have to push a little to make the deadline!
  3. She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
  Synonym:tuglabourpushdrive
• work hard
  1. She was digging away at her math homework
  2. Lexicographers drudge all day long
  Synonym:labourtoilfagtravailgrinddrudgedigmoil

双语例句

• The Labor government of Western Australia has an election due next spring
  西澳大利亚工党政府明年春天要举行选举。
• The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
  当前工人与管理部门的分工将会改变。
• No matter how we define him, he cannot in anyway be related to as a labor people.
  讲来讲去就是和劳动人民四个字沾不到边。
• The British Labor Party concludes its annual conference today in Brighton.
  英国工党的年度会议今天在布赖顿闭幕。
• The signs of labor are contractions and rupture of membranes.
  分娩的症状是宫缩和羊膜破裂。
• Most manual labor in the past has been replaced by modern machines.
  昔日大部分手工劳动已由现代化的机器所代替。
• The invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have been originally owing to the division of labor.
  简化劳动和节省劳动的那些机械的发明，看来也是起因于分工。
• This can reduce the duplication of investment, time, and labor.
  这能减少资金投入、时间和劳动的重复。
• Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor
  各家经营各自的农场，收获各自的劳动成果。
• Labor economist Harley Shaekin argues the cost needs to be viewed in perspective
  工党经济学家哈利·谢金认为要客观看待成本。