labour
美 [?le?b?r] 
英 [?le?b?(r)]
- n.勞動(dòng)；勞動(dòng)力；分娩；工人
- v.努力做（困難的事）；干苦力活；困難吃力地行進(jìn)
詞形變化
第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù)：labours 現(xiàn)在分詞：labouring 過(guò)去式：laboured 反義詞
英漢雙解
勞動(dòng)work
1. | [u] 勞動(dòng)；（尤指）體力勞動(dòng)work, especially physical work |
| manual labour(= work using your hands) 體力勞動(dòng) |
| The price will include the labour and materials. 此價(jià)格中包含人工費(fèi)和材料費(fèi)。 |
| The company wants to keep down labour costs . 公司想保持低勞動(dòng)成本。 |
| The workers voted to withdraw their labour(= to stop work as a means of protest) . 工人投票決定罷工以示抗議。 |
| He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) . 他被判處兩年勞改。 |
2. | [c][usupl] 任務(wù)；（一段時(shí)間的）工作a task or period of work |
| He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed. 他工作了一天疲憊不堪，便直接上床休息了。 |
勞動(dòng)者people who work
3. | [u] （統(tǒng)稱(chēng)）勞工，工人；勞動(dòng)力the people who work or are available for work in a country or company |
| a shortage of labour 勞動(dòng)力的短缺 |
| Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour . 雇主正在把移民當(dāng)作廉價(jià)勞動(dòng)力使用。 |
| Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive. 修理需要熟練技工，人工費(fèi)會(huì)很昂貴。 |
| good labour relations(= the relationship between workers and employers) 良好的勞資關(guān)系 |
分娩having baby
4. | [u][c][ususing] 分娩期；分娩；生產(chǎn)the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby |
| Jane was in labour for ten hours. 簡(jiǎn)分娩花了十個(gè)小時(shí)。 |
| She went into labour early. 她早產(chǎn)了。 |
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政治politics
5. | [singspv] 英國(guó)工黨the British Labour Party |
| He always votes Labour. 他老是投工黨的票。 |
| Labour was/were in power for many years. 工黨曾執(zhí)政多年。 |
奮斗struggle
1. | [i] 努力做（困難的事）to try very hard to do sth difficult |
| He was in his study labouring away over some old papers. 他在書(shū)房里潛心研究一些舊材料。 |
| They laboured for years to clear their son's name. 他們?yōu)橄此鹤拥淖锩?zhēng)取了許多年。 |
努力工作work hard
2. | [i] 干苦力活to do hard physical work |
| We laboured all day in the fields. 我們?cè)谔锏乩镄燎趧趧?dòng)了一整天。 |
| the labouring classes(= the working class) 工人階級(jí) |
吃力地行進(jìn)move with difficulty
3. | [i] (+ adv./prep.) 困難吃力地行進(jìn)to move with difficulty and effort |
| The horses laboured up the steep slope. 那些馬費(fèi)力地爬上了陡坡。 |
習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)
a labour of love
為愛(ài)好而做的困難工作a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
labour the point
一再重復(fù)，反復(fù)解釋?zhuān)ㄒ颜f(shuō)明的事）to continue to repeat or explain sth that has already been said and understood
英漢解釋
n. | 2. 工人;〈集合詞〉勞工,工人階級(jí),體力勞動(dòng)者 3. (英國(guó)或英聯(lián)邦成員國(guó)的)工黨 |
v. | 4. (船只)劇烈搖動(dòng);顛簸;困難地前進(jìn) |
na. | |
英英解釋
例句
"The emphasis has been a bit more on labour [standards] but environmental issues are going to become more important, " he said.
他表示：“人們對(duì)勞動(dòng)（標(biāo)準(zhǔn)）的重視已經(jīng)有了一點(diǎn)提高，但環(huán)境問(wèn)題將變得更為重要?！?/jz>
That will be hard, because Labour has had its revolution and Mr Brown was at the heart of it.
而那非常困難，并且工黨在改革，而布朗則是改革的核心。
From about the middle of the Eighteenth Century the improvement in agricultural technique began to make it possible to economize in labour.
自十八世紀(jì)中葉前后起，由于農(nóng)業(yè)技術(shù)的改進(jìn)，節(jié)約勞動(dòng)力開(kāi)始成為可能。
My very best is what you get, now and forever, so what you see is all I have in those moments of being in labour.
我所能做的最大努力就是你們所能得到的，從現(xiàn)在直到永遠(yuǎn)，因此你們現(xiàn)在看到的是我在分娩時(shí)刻的陣痛。
For a time the news delighted labour MPs and trade union stalwarts: the city, at last, ws getting a taste of its own nasty medicine.
這條消息使工黨的議員們和工會(huì)的忠貞分子高興了好一陣：倫敦商業(yè)區(qū)終于快要得到同樣苦澀的報(bào)應(yīng)。
It has been a labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.
這一直是一個(gè)我們對(duì)人類(lèi)的愛(ài)的勞作，一個(gè)以造物主之名的服務(wù)。
Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.
納特教授在被前工黨內(nèi)政大臣艾倫·約翰遜解雇后仍然不愿意停止他在抗擊毒品上所做的努力。
Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.
她的競(jìng)選演講就是一個(gè)恒久的提醒，她對(duì)所有事務(wù)是如何地了解，不管是外交政策還是勞動(dòng)關(guān)系。
Such gloom is not what was promised in the early years of the Labour government.
這道陰霾并不在早年工黨的承諾中。
Some describe how their cars' batteries can suddenly die while trying to overtake or labour up a hill.
一些車(chē)主詳細(xì)描述：當(dāng)試圖超車(chē)或緩慢艱難爬坡時(shí)，車(chē)電瓶就突然失效。
"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.
其推動(dòng)因素就是中國(guó)新的《勞動(dòng)合同法》（LabourContractLaw）——經(jīng)過(guò)兩年的激烈辯論，新法于今年1月開(kāi)始生效。
My wife complains about poor labour policies, the "fact" that Walmart squeezes suppliers, and that it puts local shops out of business.
我的妻子則抱怨其惡劣的勞工政策、其壓榨供應(yīng)商及導(dǎo)致地方商店倒閉的“事實(shí)”。
On October 3rd he said Fiat would pull out of Confindustria(10), Italy's employers' association, and negotiate its own labour deals.
就在10月3日，他宣布退出意大利的雇主聯(lián)盟協(xié)會(huì)-工業(yè)聯(lián)盟。
Yet in the automobile industry, at least, Japanese companies stand out for the frequency and seriousness of recent labour problems.
然而至少在汽車(chē)行業(yè)，在最近的勞資問(wèn)題中，涉及日本公司的頻率和嚴(yán)重程度都很突出。
Where the islands of capitalism met the sea of subsistence labour, there was not a "beach" , but a "cliff" .
在經(jīng)濟(jì)特區(qū)吸引到足夠的勞動(dòng)力之前，橫梗于路上的不是一個(gè)“沙灘”，而是一個(gè)“懸崖”。
In 1999 the Labour government made it a priority to reduce rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, and renewed it in 2008.
1999年，勞工部著重清掃了無(wú)家可歸者最易被察覺(jué)的粗陋的躺大街行為，2008年又一次重申這一做法。
The city's labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.
該市人才多為高技術(shù)精英，而受衰退沖擊最嚴(yán)重的乃低技術(shù)人員。
She was unfazed by it. She did not look like someone who had just been sentenced to three years' hard labour.
她看上去并不像個(gè)剛被判處三年苦役的人。
The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
是我的勞動(dòng)將它們脫離共有狀態(tài)的，確定了我對(duì)它們的財(cái)產(chǎn)權(quán)。
I found myself thinking that those words would worry me, if I were Alistair Darling, the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在想：倘若我是上屆工黨財(cái)政大臣艾利斯坦·達(dá)利，這些言語(yǔ)會(huì)令我坐立不安。
It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.
競(jìng)選初期，形勢(shì)就相當(dāng)明朗，工黨對(duì)保守黨構(gòu)不成大的威脅。
With such a small salary, no one likes to labour for the boss.
薪水這么低，誰(shuí)也不愿為老板努力干活。
Honey bees have three castes for the division of labour in a hive: queens, workers and drones.
蜜蜂由于在蜂群中分工的不同，可分為三種：蜂后、工蜂和雄蜂。
He even smiled, content that the most difficult part of the labour he had set himself was over.
他甚至微露笑容，因?yàn)?/c>他所著手的工作的最困難部分已經(jīng)辦妥，顯得心滿意足。
Both wind and tide were against the two men, and labour as they would they made but little way.
風(fēng)勢(shì)和潮水都是逆對(duì)著他們兩人來(lái)的，不管他們怎樣用力，他們仍然前進(jìn)得很慢。
But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
至于積極的愛(ài)--那是一種工作和耐心，對(duì)于某些人也許是一門(mén)完整科學(xué)。
He thundered against the policies of the Labour Government.
他猛烈抨擊工黨政府的政策。
In his political opinions he leans toward the Labour Party.
他的政見(jiàn)傾向于工黨。
From the mid 1960s the consignment of dissenters to the forced-labour camps has again become a regular practice.
自20世紀(jì)60年代中期開(kāi)始，將持不同政見(jiàn)者運(yùn)送強(qiáng)迫勞動(dòng)營(yíng)，又成為一種正規(guī)的做法。
There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labour Party. . . splintered hopelessly.
屋子里的人沒(méi)有誰(shuí)會(huì)不記得1931年，這一年，工黨四分五裂無(wú)法挽救了。
Female workers constitute the majority of the labour force.
女性雇員占勞動(dòng)力的多數(shù)。
The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic [official] airs.
勞動(dòng)的汗水沖掉了他身上的官氣。
Labour will still benefit by a rise in employment.
勞動(dòng)仍會(huì)因就業(yè)的增加而獲益。
Practically all these devices for saving time and labour have been piloted in the fifties.
這些節(jié)約時(shí)間和勞力的方法在（20世紀(jì)）50年代差不多都試驗(yàn)過(guò)了。
People who receive social payments because they are sick or handicapped are not actually part of the labour market.
那些由于疾病或傷殘而接受社會(huì)福利支付的人實(shí)際上不是勞動(dòng)市場(chǎng)的組成部分。
Labour unions are respectified in our country.
在我們國(guó)家中工會(huì)受到人們的尊重。
It was as if he had to labour, and metaphorically sweat, before his genius could, or was allowed to, emerge.
似如在他的天賦可能顯露或被接受前，他必須勞動(dòng)，付出汗水。
Lenovo said the cuts would save the company $250m a year in labour costs.
聯(lián)想表示，裁員將為公司每年節(jié)省人力成本2.5億美元。
failure on the part of the employing unit to pay labour remuneration or to provide working conditions as agreed upon in the labour contract.
用人單位未按照勞動(dòng)合同約定支付勞動(dòng)報(bào)酬或者提供勞動(dòng)條件的。
Another finding was that fertility rates have declined in those parts of Morocco and Turkey that export labour to Europe.
報(bào)告的另一項(xiàng)發(fā)現(xiàn)是，在摩洛哥和土耳其向歐洲輸出勞動(dòng)力的地區(qū)，生育率有所下降。
Speakers from Telford's Labour-controlled council talked about its "urban heartland" , as if it were the Bronx.
來(lái)自特爾福德議會(huì)（由工黨執(zhí)政）的發(fā)言人大談特談其“城市中心地位”，搞得自己好像布朗克斯一樣。
Many people seem to have dropped out of the labour force for good, perhaps to retire, collect disability, or return to education.
許多人似乎已經(jīng)永遠(yuǎn)退出了勞動(dòng)力群體，也許是退休了，也許領(lǐng)取了殘疾證，或接受繼續(xù)教育。
New Labour, as the name suggests, made a fetish of youth; Tony Blair went out of his way to speak of Britain as a "young country" .
工黨，正如其名，瘋狂的迷戀年輕人；布萊爾努力把英國(guó)描述成一個(gè)“年輕的國(guó)家”。
Changing times have pushed the question of labour back to the top of the agenda.
時(shí)代的變革令勞工問(wèn)題重新成為議事日程的要?jiǎng)?wù)。
But, to his lasting frustration, he never unravelled the mystery of what triggers labour in humans.
但是讓他一直沮喪的是，他無(wú)法解釋引發(fā)人類(lèi)生產(chǎn)的謎底。
It is not yet fully clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise.
這一最高稅率是由前工黨政府推行的，目前還不是很清楚該稅率能為政府籌到多少錢(qián)。
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
懶惰人的心愿，將他殺害，因?yàn)?/c>他手不肯作工。
The Labour MP was criticised for walking out of a Muslim wedding last summer after learning that the guests would be segregated by sex.
而工黨下議員菲資帕特里克由于去年的一件事被人批評(píng)，去年他曾因?yàn)?/c>得知賓客會(huì)按性別分離開(kāi)來(lái)，退出了一場(chǎng)穆斯林婚禮。
How much labour and how much capital (in the form of savings) to supply, and.
供應(yīng)多少勞動(dòng)力和資金（以儲(chǔ)蓄的形式）；。
It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly wrung replies.
費(fèi)了很大的勁，特別是我那些硬擠出來(lái)的回答，才滿足了這老頭子，使他知道希刺克厲夫不是首先發(fā)動(dòng)進(jìn)攻的人；
This division of labour, however, is under strain because some Chinese partners feel ready to go it alone.
然而，這種勞動(dòng)分工目前陷入緊張之中，因?yàn)?/c>部分中方合作伙伴感覺(jué)自己已經(jīng)可以單干了。
In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on "skilling up" young people.
在那些勞動(dòng)力市場(chǎng)靈活性很強(qiáng)的國(guó)家，該重點(diǎn)傾向于提高年輕人的職業(yè)技能。
The Labour Party is ready to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields, including closer inter-party exchanges.
工黨愿加強(qiáng)與中方在各領(lǐng)域的合作，包括進(jìn)一步密切黨際交流。
What would worry me more than anything, if I were a Labour minister, is how the media now treats Tory announcements.
如果我是工黨領(lǐng)袖，我會(huì)相當(dāng)關(guān)注最近媒體對(duì)保守黨發(fā)言的反應(yīng)。
and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.
并且，第二，由在有用的勞方被雇用那些人的不是的數(shù)量和那的比例那些人之間，那么使用。
But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.
然而，即排序復(fù)選制是工黨和保守黨唯一能接受的選舉革新方式，并且至少給予自民黨擁有更多席位的希望。
