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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

英英释义

noun

verb

  • undergo the efforts of childbirth
      Synonym:labour
    1. 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
    2. work hard
      1. She was digging away at her math homework
      2. Lexicographers drudge all day long
      Synonym:labourtoilfagtravailgrinddrudgedigmoil

    双语例句

    • 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 trading day is shortened in observance of the Labor Day holiday
      因庆祝劳工节,这个交易日交易时间缩短了。
    • He is a consultant on labor affairs to the mayor.
      他是市长的一个劳工顾问。
    • The signs of labor are contractions and rupture of membranes.
      分娩的症状是宫缩和羊膜破裂。
    • Next to the expense of cashiers, pricing items is one of the costliest labor costs of grocery retailers.
      对食品杂货零售商来说,给货物贴价签也是劳动力成本中最为昂贵的一个部分,仅次于雇佣收银员的费用。
    • We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists
      我们发现在主流经济学家中间出现了一种偏离劳动理论的显著变化。
    • Land, labor and capital are all productive of wealth.
      土地、劳动和资本都能创造财富。
    • 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。
    • The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
      当前工人与管理部门的分工将会改变。