labour的意思和读音

labour

: [ˈleɪbər] : [ˈleɪbə(r)]

n.

v.);

labours  labouring  laboured  

adj.+n.surplus labour,manual labour,physical labour,skilled labour,hard labour

v.+n.labour transfer,use labour,labour point

n.capitallabourn.work

1.[u];(work, especially physical work

manual labour(= work using your hands)

The price will include the labour and materials.

The company wants to keep down labour costs .

The workers voted to withdraw their labour(= to stop work as a means of protest) .

He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) .

2.[c][usupl];(a task or period of work

He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.便

people who work

3.[u]the people who work or are available for work in a country or company

a shortage of labour

Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour .使

Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive.

good labour relations(= the relationship between workers and employers)

having baby

4.[u][c][ususing]the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby

Jane was in labour for ten hours.

She went into labour early.

labour pains

politics

5.[singspv]the British Labour Party

He always votes Labour.

Labour was/were in power for many years.

IDMa labour of lovea hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessaryv.struggle

1.[i]to try very hard to do sth difficult

He was in his study labouring away over some old papers.

They laboured for years to clear their son's name.

work hard

2.[i]to do hard physical work

We laboured all day in the fields.

the labouring classes(= the working class)

move with difficulty

3.[i](+ adv./prep.)to move with difficulty and effort

The horses laboured up the steep slope.

IDMlabour the pointto continue to repeat or explain sth that has already been said and understood

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v.1.;2.;3.() (for) 4.();;5.使;6.()7.使;8.9.1.;2.;3.() (for) 4.();;5.使;6.()7.使;8.9.

na.1.“labor”

n.1.the British labour party

adj.1.relating to or supporting the British labour party

na.1.The variant of labor

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1."The emphasis has been a bit more on labour [standards] but environmental issues are going to become more important, " he said.:“。”

2.That will be hard, because Labour has had its revolution and Mr Brown was at the heart of it.

3.From about the middle of the Eighteenth Century the improvement in agricultural technique began to make it possible to economize in labour.

4.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.

5.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.使

6.It has been a labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.

7.Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.·

8.Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.

9.Such gloom is not what was promised in the early years of the Labour government.

10.Some describe how their cars' batteries can suddenly die while trying to overtake or labour up a hill.