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BNC: 724 COCA: 16348
labour
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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。

     Synonyms and related words
    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。

       Synonyms and related words
      Labour organizations and their members: the ABA, ACTU, the AFL-CIO...
    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。

       Synonyms and related words
      Workers considered as a group: staff, profession, people...
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    [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。

     Synonyms and related words
    General words relating to jobs and work: a good/smart/clever career move, appointment, background...
    1. a.

      labour

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      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。

       Synonyms and related words
      Hard work and effort: heavy lifting, ask, work...
    See also hard labour , labourer , labour of love
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    [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。

     Synonyms and related words
    Pregnancy and having a baby: abort, the afterbirth, amniocentesis...
    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

       Synonyms and related words
      Pregnancy and having a baby: abort, the afterbirth, amniocentesis...
labour
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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。

       Synonyms and related words
      To try hard to do or get something: boil the ocean, work, strive...
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    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。

     Synonyms and related words
    To move, or to move something, slowly: crawl, dawdle, creep...

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。

     Synonyms and related words
    Left-wing politics and Leftism: the ALP, the ANC, Bolshevik...
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

     Synonyms and related words
    Left-wing politics and Leftism: the ALP, the ANC, Bolshevik...
BNC: 724 COCA: 16348
labour

noun¹

 1 (BrE) (NAmE labor) work工作ADJECTIVE | VERB + LABOUR/LABOR | LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN ADJECTIVE➤manual, 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/LABOR➤withdraw停工◇The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.礦工們威脅要罷工。LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN➤productivity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 ADJECTIVE➤free, 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 + NOUN➤force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 ADJECTIVE➤difficult, 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/LABOR➤go 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 + NOUN➤room, ward (BrE) 待產室；產房▸➤pains分娩時的陣痛PREPOSITION➤in 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
⇨ work 1labour (also labor) noun
⇨ work 1

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