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• Labour is a form of:
  labour   /ˈleɪbə(r)/ DJ   /'lebɚ/ KK
  • Variant:
    labor American English, British English
  • noun
    • 劳动；（尤指）体力劳动 work, especially physical workuncountable
      • 体力劳动 manual labour(= work using your hands)
      • 此价格中包含人工费和材料费。 The price will include the labour and materials.
      • 公司不想提高劳动成本。 The company wants to keep down labour costs.
      • 工人们投票决定罢工以示抗议。 The workers voted to withdraw their labour(= to stop work as a means of protest).
      • 他被判处两年劳改。 He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work).
    • 任务；（一段时间的）工作 a task or period of workcountable usually plural formal
      • 他工作了一天疲惫不堪，便直接上床休息了。 He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.
    • 劳工；工人；劳力 the people who work or are available for work in a country or a companyuncountable
      • 劳动力的短缺 a shortage of labour
      • 雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。 Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour.
      • 修理需要熟练技工，人工费会很昂贵。 Repairs involve skilled labour, which can be expensive.
      • 良好的劳资关系 good labour relations(= the relationship between workers and employers)
    • 分娩期；分娩；生产 the period of time or the process of giving birth to a babyuncountable countable usually singular
      • 简分娩花了十个小时。 Jane was in labour for ten hours.
      • 她早产了。 She went into labour early.
      • 分娩时的阵痛 labour pains
    • 英国工党 the British Labour Partysingular + sing./pl. verb
      • 他老是投工党的票。 He always votes Labour.
      • 工党已执政五年。 Labour has/have been in power for five years.
      • Alternate:
        Labour
    • Idiom:
      a labour of love
      • 为爱好而做的困难工作 a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
  • verb
    • 努力做（困难的事） to try very hard to do something difficult~ (away)
      • 他在书房里潜心研究一些旧材料。 He was in his study labouring away over some old papers.V
      • 他们为洗刷儿子的罪名奋力斗争了许多年。 They laboured for years to clear their son's name.V to inf.
    • 干苦力活 to do hard physical workV
      • 我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。 We laboured all day in the fields.
      • 工人阶级 the labouring classes(= the working class)old-fashioned
    • 困难吃力地行进 to move with difficulty and effortV
      • 那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。 The horses laboured up the steep slope.
    • Idiom:
      labour the point
      • 一再重复，反复解释（已说明的事） to continue to repeat or explain something that has already been said and understood
    • Phrasal:
      labour under something formal
      • 为…所蒙蔽 to believe something that is not true
        • 有误解╱错觉 to labour under a misapprehension/delusion
        • 他仍然有这样的错觉，以为自己撰写了一部巨著。 He's still labouring under the impression that he's written a great book.

Related phrases

• Labour Party
  工党（英国主要政党之一，传统上代表劳动人民的利益）
• International Labour Organization
  国际劳工组织 (网址: http://www.ilo.org/) (ILO)
• United Nations ILO Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labour
  联合国国际劳工组织强迫劳动特设委员会
• forced labour
  1. （对囚犯、奴隶等实施的）强制劳动    2. 强制劳工（如囚犯或奴隶）
• hard labour
  劳役；苦役
• labour force
  劳动力
• labour-intensive
  工作 劳动密集型的
• labour market
  劳动力市场
• labour-saving
  省力的；节省劳力的；降低劳动强度的
• slave labour
  1. 奴隶劳动；干苦役的奴隶    2. 繁重而报酬很低的工作

Related languages

• labour is also a word in: français

Synonyms

• adjective: labor, working
• verb: labor, work, toil
• noun: labor, work, job, toil, effort

Web translations

Usage examples

• "I have judged that it is in fact (Labour) that best meets my criteria that the next government must be stable, must be competent and must be ethical," said Wilkie, who has blamed slot machines for causing addiction and misery for families.
  Sep 2, 2010 -  Andrew Wilkie -  Stuff.co.nz
• "I'm absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and prime minister," Blair said. "I will endorse him fully."
  May 11, 2007 -  Tony Blair -  CNN International
• Their decision to jump first suggests that their loyalty to Labour - "I want to help the Labour Party to reconnect with the British people," said Blears in her resignation statement - does not extend to Brown.
  Jun 3, 2009 -  Hazel Blears -  TIME

Web definitions

• • labor: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
    
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• • labor: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
    
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• • parturiency: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
    
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