labour

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

1. [U]劳动,努力;工作 effort or work, especially tiring physical work;a piece of work
2. [C]劳工,工人 workers, especially those who use their hands, considered as a group or class
3. [U]分娩,(分娩时的)阵痛 the act of giving birth

1. vi. 劳动;努力 work;try hard
2. vi. 艰难行进 move, slowly and with difficulty
3. vi. & vt. 详细地做 work out in detail;treat at great length

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• labour the point仔细地分析解释

• 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

• 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

labour force n. 劳动力

surplus labour 【政治经济学】剩余劳动(力) , 【经济学】剩余劳动

labour party劳工党

division of labour分工

labour union n. [美]工会

labour productivity劳动生产率

cheap labour廉价劳动力；廉价劳工

labour for v. 努力争取

manual labour体力劳动；手工劳动

labour cost人工成本

labour law劳动法

labour movement工人运动

new labour新工党

labour day劳动节

child labour童工

hard labour强迫劳役

labour dispute劳资争议

international labour organization国际劳工组织

ministry of labour劳工部

physical labour体力劳动

1. Labour is not only a necessity but also a pleasure.
   劳动不仅是人生所必需的，而且是一种乐趣。
2. It takes a lot of labour to build a railway.
   修筑一条铁路要花费许多劳动力。
3. A vigorous labour movement began that winter.
   那年冬天，展开了蓬蓬勃勃的劳工运动。
4. The labour question must come to the fore next session.
   劳工问题必将成为下届会议的热门话题。
5. She was in labour for three hours.
   她的分娩过程长达三小时。

1. We labour for the happiness of mankind.
   我们为人类的幸福而努力。
2. The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.
   编辑煞费苦心地修改稿件，一直干到清晨。
3. Miners labour in the bowels of earth.
   矿工们在地底下劳动。
4. The old man laboured up the hillside.
   老人吃力地登上山腰。
5. The horses laboured up the steep slope.
   那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。
6. There is no need to labour the argument.
   该论据无需详细说明或讨论。
7. You needn't labour a point that is perfectly plain.
   这点很明显，你用不着讲个没完。

1. He was elected to the leadership of the Labour Party.
   他被选为工党的领导人。