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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary la·bour chiefly British variant of labor English Etymology labour British spelling of labor (q.v.); for suffix, see -or. As short for "the British Labour Party" it is from 1906. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ labour la·bour (BrE) (NAmE labor) / 5leibE(r) / nounWORK 劳动 1. [U] work, especially physical work 劳动；(尤指)体力劳动: 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 ten 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, usually pl.] (formal) a task or period of work 任务；(一段时间的)工作: 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。 PEOPLE WHO WORK 劳动者 3. [U] the people who work or are available for work in a country or company (统称)劳工,工人；劳动力: 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 HAVING BABY 分娩 4. [U, C, usually sing.] the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby 分娩期；分娩；生产: Jane was in labour for two hours. 简分娩花了十个小时。 She went into labour early. 她早产了。 labour pains 分娩时的阵痛 POLITICS 政治 5. Labour [sing. + sing. / pl. v.] (abbr. Lab) the British Labour Party 英国工党: He always votes Labour. 他老是投工党的票。 Labour has / have been in power for nearly two years. 工党执政已将近 10 年。 IDIOMS ▪ a 7labour of 'love a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary 为爱好而做的困难工作verbSTRUGGLE 奋斗 1. ~ (away) to try very hard to do sth difficult 努力做(困难的事): ▪ [V] 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。 ▪ [V to inf] They laboured for years to clear their son's name. 他们为洗刷儿子的罪名奋力斗争了许多年。 WORK HARD 努力工作 2. [V] to do hard physical work 干苦力活: We laboured all day in the fields. 我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。 (old-fashioned) the labouring classes (= the working class) 工人阶级 MOVE WITH DIFFICULTY 吃力地行进 3. [V] to move with difficulty and effort 困难吃力地行进 SYN struggle :
The horses laboured up the steep slope. 那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。 ▪ labour the 'point to continue to repeat or explain sth that has already been said and understood 一再重复,反复解释(已说明的事) PHRASAL VERBS ▪ 'labour under sth (formal) to believe sth that is not true 为…所蒙蔽: to labour under a misapprehension / delusion, etc. 有误解、错觉等 He's still labouring under the impression that he's written a great book. 他仍然有这样的错觉,以为自己撰写了一部巨着。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English labour noun 1 work ADJ. manual, physical | forced, hard He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime. VERB + LABOUR withdraw The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour. LABOUR + NOUN market an increasingly competitive labour market 2 workers ADJ. cheap | casual | skilled, unskilled | child, migrant, slave It is thought that Stonehenge was built using slave labour. LABOUR + NOUN force the size of the labour force | cost/costs | relations 3 giving birth ADJ. difficult, easy | long, short The baby was born after a long labour. VERB + LABOUR go into She went into labour two weeks early. | induce Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue. LABOUR + NOUN room, ward | pains PREP. in ~ She was in labour for ten hours. Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged labour Britain variant of labor |
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