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
BNC.17075 / COCA.1123
柯林斯词典
- → see:labour
英英释义
noun
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- his labor did not require a great deal of skill
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- he prepared for great undertakings
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy
- she was in labor for six hours
verb
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- 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
- work hard
- She was digging away at her math homework
- Lexicographers drudge all day long
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Land, labor and capital are all productive of wealth.
土地、劳动和资本都能创造财富。 - He earns a living by casual labor.
他靠做临时工为生。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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分娩的症状是宫缩和羊膜破裂。 - Most manual labor in the past has been replaced by modern machines.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。