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BNC: 724 COCA: 16348
labour
noun /ˈleɪbə(r)/
singularlabour
plurallabours
  1. 1
    [U] economics the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group 工人;劳工;工人阶级;体力劳动者

    the declining demand for labour in agriculture 农业方面对劳工需求量的下降

    a plentiful supply of cheap labour 廉价劳动力的大量供应

    skilled/unskilled labour :

    The demand for skilled labour in the building industry is high. 建筑行业对熟练工人的需求量很大。

    casual labour (=people who are not employed regularly) 临时工人 :

    Hotel managers need skilled staff and can't afford to rely on casual labour. 宾馆经理们需要熟练的员工,依靠临时工他们承受不起。

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    Workers considered as a group: staff, profession, people...
    1. a.
      the organizations to which workers belong, or their leaders, considered as a group 工会

      a meeting between management and labour 劳资双方的会议

      organized labour :

      In the 1960s the strength of organized labour was becoming more apparent. 在20世纪60年代,有组织的工会力量变得越来越明显。

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    2. b.
      [only before noun] relating to or involving workers 与劳工有关的;涉及劳工的

      a labour dispute 劳资纠纷

      The company is passing its higher labour costs on to its customers. 该公司将其较高的劳工费用转嫁给顾客。

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      Workers considered as a group: staff, profession, people...
  2. 2
    [U] work 劳动;工作

    the traditional division of labour between men and women in the home 男女在家中传统的劳动分工

    The price quoted includes the cost of all labour and materials. 所报价格包括所有的劳务费和材料费。

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    1. a.

      labour

      or

      labours

      formal
      work, especially hard physical work 劳动;(尤指)艰苦的体力劳动

      In return for his labours, he receives food and shelter. 他以他辛苦的劳动换取食物和栖身之所。

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    See also hard labour , labourer , labour of love
  3. 3
    [singular/uncountable] the process by which a baby is pushed from its mother's body when she is giving birth to it 分娩(过程)

    drugs to ensure pain-free labour and delivery 确保无痛分娩的药物

    go into labour :

    She went into labour early this morning. 她今天早上很早就开始分娩了。

    be in labour :

    His wife was in labour for six hours. 他妻子的分娩长达6个小时。

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    1. a.
      [only before noun] relating to a woman's labour when she is giving birth to a baby 与分娩有关的

      labour pains 分娩时的阵痛

      a labour ward 产房

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labour
verb [I] /ˈleɪbə(r)/
present tense
I/you/we/theylabour
he/she/itlabours
present participlelabouring
past tenselaboured
past participlelaboured
  1. 1
    formal to work hard, especially physically 辛苦工作(尤指体力劳动)

    Five generations of his family have laboured as fishermen. 他家5代人都是辛苦劳作的渔民。

     Synonyms and related words
    To work hard: work at, forge, overwork...
    1. a.
      to put a lot of effort into achieving something 费力地从事…
      labour over something :

      At midnight she was still labouring over the accounts. 午夜时她仍在费劲地清点账目。

      labour to do something :

      He laboured to make them understand his French. 他努力想让他们听懂他的法语。

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  2. 2
    to move very slowly and with difficulty 费力地行进

    He laboured up the stairs with his bag of groceries. 他抱着一包食品杂货艰难地爬上楼梯。

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phrasal verbs

Labour
noun [U] /ˈleɪbə(r)/
  1. the British Labour Party: can be followed by a singular or plural verb 英国工党(后可接动词的单数或复数形式)

    She always votes Labour. 她一直都投工党的票。

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Labour
adjective /ˈleɪbə(r)/
  1. relating to or supporting the British Labour Party 与英国工党有关的;支持英国工党的

    the Labour government 工党政府

    a policy that is likely to worry many Labour voters 一项可能使许多支持工党的选民忧虑的政策

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BNC: 724 COCA: 16348
labour

noun¹

1 (BrE) (NAmE labor) work工作ADJECTIVE | VERB + LABOUR/LABOR | LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN ADJECTIVEmanual, physical體力勞動back-breaking, forced, hard令人累斷腰的勞動;強迫勞動;苦役He was sentenced to four years' hard labour for his crime.他因犯罪被判 4 年苦役。productive, unproductive生產性/非生產性勞動unpaid無償勞動VERB + LABOUR/LABORwithdraw停工The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.礦工們威脅要罷工。LABOUR/LABOR + NOUNproductivity勞動生產率camp勞改營Dissidents were forced to work in labour camps.持不同政見者在勞改營被強制勞動。
labour

noun²

2 (BrE) (NAmE labor) workers工人ADJECTIVE | LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN ADJECTIVEfree, organized非工會/工會工人wage雇傭勞動力cheap, low-cost廉價勞動力casual, day (NAmE) 臨時工;(按日計酬的)散工skilled, unskilled熟練/非熟練工人illegal非法勞動力foreign, immigrant, migrant外國勞工;移民勞工;流動工人child, slave童工;奴隸勞工It is now thought that the Pyramids were not built using slave labour.人們現在認為金字塔當年不是靠做苦工的奴隸建成的。prison獄中勞役farm農場勞工sweatshop血汗勞工LABOUR/LABOR + NOUNforce勞動力the size of the labour force勞動力規模market, pool, supply勞動力市場/儲備/供應an increasingly competitive labour market競爭越來越激烈的勞動力市場shortage勞動力短缺cost, costs勞動力成本movement工人運動tensions between the labour movement and government工人運動與政府之間的緊張關係organization勞工組織activist, leader勞工運動活動家/領袖relations勞資關係dispute勞動爭議law勞動法
labour

noun³

3 (BrE) (NAmE labor) giving birth生育ADJECTIVE | VERB + LABOUR/LABOR | LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEdifficult, easy難產;順產long, short長時間的/短時間的分娩The baby was born after a long labour.這個嬰兒經過很長時間的分娩才出生。preterm早產women at risk of preterm labour有早產危險的婦女VERB + LABOUR/LABORgo into進入分娩期She went into labour two weeks early.她提前兩週分娩。induce引產Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.在嬰兒超過預產期 10 天以後進行了引產。LABOUR/LABOR + NOUNroom, ward (BrE) 待產室;產房pains分娩時的陣痛PREPOSITIONin labour在分娩She was in labour for ten hours.她分娩長達 10 個小時。
BNC: 724 COCA: 16348
labour (also labor) verb
work1
labour (also labor) noun
work1

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