labour
美 [ˈleɪbər] 
英 [ˈleɪbə(r)]
- n.劳动；劳动力；分娩；工人
- v.努力做（困难的事）；干苦力活；困难吃力地行进
词形变化
第三人称单数：labours 现在分词：labouring 过去式：laboured 反义词
英汉双解
劳动work
1. | [u] 劳动；（尤指）体力劳动work, especially physical work |
| manual labour(= work using your hands) 体力劳动 |
| The price will include the labour and materials. 此价格中包含人工费和材料费。 |
| The company wants to keep down labour costs . 公司想保持低劳动成本。 |
| The workers voted to withdraw their labour(= to stop work as a means of protest) . 工人投票决定罢工以示抗议。 |
| He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) . 他被判处两年劳改。 |
2. | [c][usupl] 任务；（一段时间的）工作a task or period of work |
| He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed. 他工作了一天疲惫不堪，便直接上床休息了。 |
劳动者people who work
3. | [u] （统称）劳工，工人；劳动力the people who work or are available for work in a country or company |
| a shortage of labour 劳动力的短缺 |
| Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour . 雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。 |
| Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive. 修理需要熟练技工，人工费会很昂贵。 |
| good labour relations(= the relationship between workers and employers) 良好的劳资关系 |
分娩having baby
4. | [u][c][ususing] 分娩期；分娩；生产the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby |
| Jane was in labour for ten hours. 简分娩花了十个小时。 |
| She went into labour early. 她早产了。 |
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政治politics
5. | [singspv] 英国工党the British Labour Party |
| He always votes Labour. 他老是投工党的票。 |
| Labour was/were in power for many years. 工党曾执政多年。 |
奋斗struggle
1. | [i] 努力做（困难的事）to try very hard to do sth difficult |
| He was in his study labouring away over some old papers. 他在书房里潜心研究一些旧材料。 |
| They laboured for years to clear their son's name. 他们为洗刷儿子的罪名努力争取了许多年。 |
努力工作work hard
2. | [i] 干苦力活to do hard physical work |
| We laboured all day in the fields. 我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。 |
| the labouring classes(= the working class) 工人阶级 |
吃力地行进move with difficulty
3. | [i] (+ adv./prep.) 困难吃力地行进to move with difficulty and effort |
| The horses laboured up the steep slope. 那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。 |
习惯用语
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
labour the point
一再重复，反复解释（已说明的事）to continue to repeat or explain sth that has already been said and understood
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"The emphasis has been a bit more on labour [standards] but environmental issues are going to become more important, " he said.
他表示：“人们对劳动（标准）的重视已经有了一点提高，但环境问题将变得更为重要。”
That will be hard, because Labour has had its revolution and Mr Brown was at the heart of it.
而那非常困难，并且工党在改革，而布朗则是改革的核心。
From about the middle of the Eighteenth Century the improvement in agricultural technique began to make it possible to economize in labour.
自十八世纪中叶前后起，由于农业技术的改进，节约劳动力开始成为可能。
My very best is what you get, now and forever, so what you see is all I have in those moments of being in labour.
我所能做的最大努力就是你们所能得到的，从现在直到永远，因此你们现在看到的是我在分娩时刻的阵痛。
For a time the news delighted labour MPs and trade union stalwarts: the city, at last, ws getting a taste of its own nasty medicine.
这条消息使工党的议员们和工会的忠贞分子高兴了好一阵：伦敦商业区终于快要得到同样苦涩的报应。
It has been a labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.
这一直是一个我们对人类的爱的劳作，一个以造物主之名的服务。
Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.
纳特教授在被前工党内政大臣艾伦·约翰逊解雇后仍然不愿意停止他在抗击毒品上所做的努力。
Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.
她的竞选演讲就是一个恒久的提醒，她对所有事务是如何地了解，不管是外交政策还是劳动关系。
Such gloom is not what was promised in the early years of the Labour government.
这道阴霾并不在早年工党的承诺中。
Some describe how their cars' batteries can suddenly die while trying to overtake or labour up a hill.
一些车主详细描述：当试图超车或缓慢艰难爬坡时，车电瓶就突然失效。
"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.
其推动因素就是中国新的《劳动合同法》（LabourContractLaw）——经过两年的激烈辩论，新法于今年1月开始生效。
My wife complains about poor labour policies, the "fact" that Walmart squeezes suppliers, and that it puts local shops out of business.
我的妻子则抱怨其恶劣的劳工政策、其压榨供应商及导致地方商店倒闭的“事实”。
On October 3rd he said Fiat would pull out of Confindustria(10), Italy's employers' association, and negotiate its own labour deals.
就在10月3日，他宣布退出意大利的雇主联盟协会-工业联盟。
Yet in the automobile industry, at least, Japanese companies stand out for the frequency and seriousness of recent labour problems.
然而至少在汽车行业，在最近的劳资问题中，涉及日本公司的频率和严重程度都很突出。
Where the islands of capitalism met the sea of subsistence labour, there was not a "beach" , but a "cliff" .
在经济特区吸引到足够的劳动力之前，横梗于路上的不是一个“沙滩”，而是一个“悬崖”。
In 1999 the Labour government made it a priority to reduce rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, and renewed it in 2008.
1999年，劳工部着重清扫了无家可归者最易被察觉的粗陋的躺大街行为，2008年又一次重申这一做法。
The city's labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.
该市人才多为高技术精英，而受衰退冲击最严重的乃低技术人员。
She was unfazed by it. She did not look like someone who had just been sentenced to three years' hard labour.
她看上去并不像个刚被判处三年苦役的人。
The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
是我的劳动将它们脱离共有状态的，确定了我对它们的财产权。
I found myself thinking that those words would worry me, if I were Alistair Darling, the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
我发现自己在想：倘若我是上届工党财政大臣艾利斯坦·达利，这些言语会令我坐立不安。
It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.
竞选初期，形势就相当明朗，工党对保守党构不成大的威胁。
With such a small salary, no one likes to labour for the boss.
薪水这么低，谁也不愿为老板努力干活。
Honey bees have three castes for the division of labour in a hive: queens, workers and drones.
蜜蜂由于在蜂群中分工的不同，可分为三种：蜂后、工蜂和雄蜂。
He even smiled, content that the most difficult part of the labour he had set himself was over.
他甚至微露笑容，因为他所着手的工作的最困难部分已经办妥，显得心满意足。
Both wind and tide were against the two men, and labour as they would they made but little way.
风势和潮水都是逆对着他们两人来的，不管他们怎样用力，他们仍然前进得很慢。
But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
至于积极的爱--那是一种工作和耐心，对于某些人也许是一门完整科学。
He thundered against the policies of the Labour Government.
他猛烈抨击工党政府的政策。
In his political opinions he leans toward the Labour Party.
他的政见倾向于工党。
From the mid 1960s the consignment of dissenters to the forced-labour camps has again become a regular practice.
自20世纪60年代中期开始，将持不同政见者运送强迫劳动营，又成为一种正规的做法。
There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labour Party. . . splintered hopelessly.
屋子里的人没有谁会不记得1931年，这一年，工党四分五裂无法挽救了。
Female workers constitute the majority of the labour force.
女性雇员占劳动力的多数。
The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic [official] airs.
劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。
Labour will still benefit by a rise in employment.
劳动仍会因就业的增加而获益。
Practically all these devices for saving time and labour have been piloted in the fifties.
这些节约时间和劳力的方法在（20世纪）50年代差不多都试验过了。
People who receive social payments because they are sick or handicapped are not actually part of the labour market.
那些由于疾病或伤残而接受社会福利支付的人实际上不是劳动市场的组成部分。
Labour unions are respectified in our country.
在我们国家中工会受到人们的尊重。
It was as if he had to labour, and metaphorically sweat, before his genius could, or was allowed to, emerge.
似如在他的天赋可能显露或被接受前，他必须劳动，付出汗水。
Lenovo said the cuts would save the company $250m a year in labour costs.
联想表示，裁员将为公司每年节省人力成本2.5亿美元。
failure on the part of the employing unit to pay labour remuneration or to provide working conditions as agreed upon in the labour contract.
用人单位未按照劳动合同约定支付劳动报酬或者提供劳动条件的。
Another finding was that fertility rates have declined in those parts of Morocco and Turkey that export labour to Europe.
报告的另一项发现是，在摩洛哥和土耳其向欧洲输出劳动力的地区，生育率有所下降。
Speakers from Telford's Labour-controlled council talked about its "urban heartland" , as if it were the Bronx.
来自特尔福德议会（由工党执政）的发言人大谈特谈其“城市中心地位”，搞得自己好像布朗克斯一样。
Many people seem to have dropped out of the labour force for good, perhaps to retire, collect disability, or return to education.
许多人似乎已经永远退出了劳动力群体，也许是退休了，也许领取了残疾证，或接受继续教育。
New Labour, as the name suggests, made a fetish of youth; Tony Blair went out of his way to speak of Britain as a "young country" .
工党，正如其名，疯狂的迷恋年轻人；布莱尔努力把英国描述成一个“年轻的国家”。
Changing times have pushed the question of labour back to the top of the agenda.
时代的变革令劳工问题重新成为议事日程的要务。
But, to his lasting frustration, he never unravelled the mystery of what triggers labour in humans.
但是让他一直沮丧的是，他无法解释引发人类生产的谜底。
It is not yet fully clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise.
这一最高税率是由前工党政府推行的，目前还不是很清楚该税率能为政府筹到多少钱。
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
懒惰人的心愿，将他杀害，因为他手不肯作工。
The Labour MP was criticised for walking out of a Muslim wedding last summer after learning that the guests would be segregated by sex.
而工党下议员菲资帕特里克由于去年的一件事被人批评，去年他曾因为得知宾客会按性别分离开来，退出了一场穆斯林婚礼。
How much labour and how much capital (in the form of savings) to supply, and.
供应多少劳动力和资金（以储蓄的形式）；。
It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly wrung replies.
费了很大的劲，特别是我那些硬挤出来的回答，才满足了这老头子，使他知道希刺克厉夫不是首先发动进攻的人；
This division of labour, however, is under strain because some Chinese partners feel ready to go it alone.
然而，这种劳动分工目前陷入紧张之中，因为部分中方合作伙伴感觉自己已经可以单干了。
In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on "skilling up" young people.
在那些劳动力市场灵活性很强的国家，该重点倾向于提高年轻人的职业技能。
The Labour Party is ready to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields, including closer inter-party exchanges.
工党愿加强与中方在各领域的合作，包括进一步密切党际交流。
What would worry me more than anything, if I were a Labour minister, is how the media now treats Tory announcements.
如果我是工党领袖，我会相当关注最近媒体对保守党发言的反应。
and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.
并且，第二，由在有用的劳方被雇用那些人的不是的数量和那的比例那些人之间，那么使用。
But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.
然而，即排序复选制是工党和保守党唯一能接受的选举革新方式，并且至少给予自民党拥有更多席位的希望。
