labour

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英[ˈleɪbə(r)]
美[ˈleɪbər]

基本释义

n.
劳动,工作; 分娩; 英国工党
v.
努力做; 劳动; 艰苦地做; 吃力前行

词性变化

实用例句

manual labour (= work using your hands)

体力劳动

牛津词典

The price will include the labour and materials.

此价格中包含人工费和材料费。

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The company wants to keep down labour costs .

公司想保持低劳动成本。

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The workers voted to withdraw their labour (= to stop work as a means of protest) .

工人投票决定罢工以示抗议。

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He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp (= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) .

他被判处两年劳改。

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He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.

他工作了一天疲惫不堪,便直接上床休息了。

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a shortage of labour

劳动力的短缺

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Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour .

雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。

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Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive.

修理需要熟练技工,人工费会很昂贵。

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good labour relations (= the relationship between workers and employers)

良好的劳资关系

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Jane was in labour for ten hours.

简分娩花了十个小时。

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...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...

播种、种植和收割的辛勤劳作

The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.

正在烧烤台上忙活的厨师抬起头来;他的脸上直冒汗。

...peasants labouring in the fields...

在地里劳作的农民

Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.

她丈夫在厂里辛勤工作了17年。

For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.

他呕心沥血地建立一个宗教社区,至今已有25个年头。

...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.

在其他各种困难下艰苦工作的小伙子

Latin America lacked skilled labour...

拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。

...the struggle between capital and labour...

劳资斗争

Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour...

每个人的劳动成果都应该获得合理的回报。

The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.

失业者没法罢工——他们没有这种实力。

He believes that, historically, Labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...

他相信一直以来工党在帮助人民改善生活方面表现最为出色。

They all vote Labour.

他们都投工党的票。

...a Labour MP...

工党下院议员

Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.

数以百万计的工党支持者没有议员代表。

She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...

她有一个错觉,以为我知道自己在做什么。

You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.

你似乎存在相当大的误解。

I don't want to labour the point but there it is.

我不想反复重申,但还是不得不说。

I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.

我还以为这些疼痛意味着我要生了呢。

Some women prefer to move about during labour.

有些女人喜欢在分娩期间下床走动。

真题例句

The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Patrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Now Fred, you went to university in Canada? A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasing employers' choice.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off)

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

To compensate for the fast-shrinking labour force, Japan would need large numbers of immigrants from overseas

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

International Labour Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Mothers' labour is of a higher value than it is realised.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as£172, 000 a year.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

To calculate just how much mothers would earn from that labour, it suggested some of the roles that mums could take on, including housekeeper, part-time lawyer, personal trainer and entertainer.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK "town of culture" award.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

  • 2. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child;

    "she was in labor for six hours"

  • 3. productive work (especially physical work done for wages);

    "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

Verb
  • 1. work hard;

    "She was digging away at her math homework"

    "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

  • 2. 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"

  • 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth

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