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

• → see:labour

英英释义

noun

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  1. his labor did not require a great deal of skill
  Synonym:labourtoil
• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  1. he prepared for great undertakings
  Synonym:undertakingprojecttask
• a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
  1. there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
  Synonym:labourworking classproletariat
• an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
  Synonym:labor movementtrade union movement
• concluding state of pregnancy
  1. she was in labor for six hours
  Synonym:parturiencylabourconfinementlying-intravailchildbed

verb

• undergo the efforts of childbirth
  Synonym:labour
• 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
• 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。