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

• He earns a living by casual labor.
  他靠做临时工为生。
• Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions
  劳资双方在薪水、福利和工作条件的问题上争执不下。
• The Labor Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery
  劳工部的数据进一步印证了经济复苏状况的不稳定。
• Land, labor and capital are all productive of wealth.
  土地、劳动和资本都能创造财富。
• We've got stable labor, decreasing interest rates, low oil prices.
  我们拥有稳定的劳力、不断降低的利率以及低廉的石油价格。
• The international labor office publishes the following statistics.
  国际劳工部公布了下面的统计。
• We have to balance good labor relations against the need to cut costs.
  我们要在搞好劳资关系与削减开支之间保持平衡。
• The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws
  这家公司说自己严格遵守美国的各项劳工法。
• 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。
• It was difficult to measure the precise impact of the labor action.
  此次罢工影响几何，难以作出准确的评估。