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labournoun(WORK)C1[U]practicalwork,especiallywhen itinvolveshardphysicaleffort: 劳动;(尤指)体力劳动 Thecarpartsthemselves are notexpensive, it's the labour thatcoststhemoney.汽车零件本身并不贵,但人工费很高。 manuallabour(= hardworkusing thehands)体力劳动 C1[U]workers,especiallypeoplewho dopracticalworkwiththeirhands: (尤指干体力活儿的)工人,劳工 skilled/unskilledlabour熟练/非熟练工人 labours[plural]literary all theeffortand hardworkthat have beeninvolvedin doing aparticularpieceofwork: 努力;辛勤劳动Are youtiredafteryourlabours?辛勤工作之后你觉得累吗? Westwaspaidvery little for his labours.韦斯特的辛勤劳动只得到了很微薄的报酬。 Retirement is thetimetoenjoythefruitsofyourlabours.退休就是享受辛勤劳动成果的时候。 - Farming has beenmechanized,reducingthe need for labour.
- Theoldergenerationwerebentdoublefromdecadesof labour in thefields.
- Society ischallengingthetraditionalsexualdivisionof labour.
- There has been someincreasein the use ofcasuallabour overrecentyears.
- We'llinvoiceyou forpartsand labour.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesWork, working and the workplace - act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- grind
- hoop
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- moonlight
- skivvy
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- undertaking
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Workers in general Effort and expending energy labournoun(BIRTH)C2[CorU]the laststageofpregnancyfrom thetimewhen themusclesof thewombstarttopushthebabyout of thebodyuntil thebabyappears: 分娩期;分娩,生产,临盆 labourpains分娩时的阵痛 Shewent into(=started)labour at twelve o'clock lastnight.昨晚12点她开始分娩。 I wasinlabour for twelvehourswith my firstbaby.我生第一个孩子用了12个小时。 No two labours areeverthe same.没有两次分娩是完全相同的。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesObstetrics: birth - antenatally
- Apgar score
- B, b
- birth centre
- birth partner
- birth rate
- bore
- breech
- childbearing
- delivery room
- hypnobirthing
- induce
- maternity suite
- maternity unit
- matrescence
- midwifery
- newborn
- preemie
- rooming-in
- stillborn
See more results » [I]to do hardphysicalwork: 劳动,劳作,干重活儿 HetravelledaroundEuropelabouring topayhis way.他靠打工挣路费周游了欧洲。 [+ to infinitive]Threehoursafter theexplosion,rescueteamswere still labouringtofreethosetrapped.爆炸发生3小时后,救援队员还在奋力解救被困人员。 [I+ adv/prep]to do somethingslowlywithgreatphysicalormentaleffort: 艰难地做,费劲儿地工作 He laboured up thehillwith hisheavyload.他负重艰难地登上了山顶。 She's been labouring over the samearticlefordays.她为了这篇文章已经苦熬好几天了。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesWork, working and the workplace - act assomething
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- grind
- hoop
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- induction
- industry
- moonlight
- skivvy
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- undertaking
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Idiomslabour the point labour under the delusion, illusion, misapprehension, etc. the LabourParty, thepoliticalpartyinGreatBritainthatbelievesinsocialequality, a moreequalsharingout ofwealth, and therightsofworkers: (英国)工党Labour aresureto get in at the nextelection.工党在下届选举中肯定会获胜。 IvotedLabour in the lastelection.上次选举时我投了工党的票。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPolitics - general words - anti-capitalism
- anti-capitalist
- anti-communism
- anti-communist
- anti-fascism
- lab
- laissez-faire
- left
- left of centre
- leftist
- overstep
- parliament
- party politics
- personality cult
- pinko
- subsidiarity
- super-conservative
- Thatcherism
- the Third Way
- Tory
See more results » belongingorrelatingto the LabourParty: 工党的the LabourParty支持工党的选民 Labourvoters工党 the Labourcandidate工党候选人 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPolitics - general words - anti-capitalism
- anti-capitalist
- anti-communism
- anti-communist
- anti-fascism
- lab
- laissez-faire
- left
- left of centre
- leftist
- overstep
- parliament
- party politics
- personality cult
- pinko
- subsidiarity
- super-conservative
- Thatcherism
- the Third Way
- Tory
See more results » (Definition oflabourfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)practicalwork,especiallyinvolvingphysicaleffort: Thecostwilldependon theamountof labourinvolved. They gave us anestimatedpriceincludingpartsand labour. Theshortssellfor $45, but thehard laborof the women who made themcostjust 50cents. Mostjobsthesedaysaren'texhaustingmanuallabour. HRworkersin acompanyor acountry,especiallypeoplewho dopracticalworkwiththeirhands: skilled/unskilled labourForeignworkerswerebroughtin tofillatemporaryshortfallinskilledlabor. We usecasuallabourduringbusyperiods. cheap/local/temporarylabour Morecompaniesarebuildingplantsabroadto takeadvantageofcheaperlaborcosts. labourdisputes/shortages/standards withdraw your labourUK HRtostopworkingas a way ofcomplainingabout ortryingtochangesomething, such aspayorworkingconditions: Thepilotshavechosentowithdrawtheirlabour at acrucialtimein the airline'shistory. See alsoagency labour casualadjective child labour direct labour division of labour forced labour indirect labour organized labour sweated labour (Definition oflabourfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesoflabourlabour The working plans included construction of forest access roads at fairly highlabourcost.From theCambridge English Corpus Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitative survey and qualitative interviews for the study of current rurallabourtransformations.From theCambridge English Corpus In the first sector,labourproduces a manufactured good with constant returns to scale.From theCambridge English Corpus The second sector comprises resource harvesting, which is undertaken with constant returns to scale tolabourand to the resource stock.From theCambridge English Corpus Because a significant portion of thelabourforce was becoming redundant, pauperization loomed large.From theCambridge English Corpus However, differences in the nature of wagelabourbetween the two regions were very strong, as a result of the specific route of the transition.From theCambridge English Corpus Servants were gradually replaced by other types oflabourwith work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.From theCambridge English Corpus This considerably reduces the inherent power of his depiction of childlabour.From theCambridge English Corpus It should be stressed that thelabourforce was structured around households and not around individual labourers.From theCambridge English Corpus A certain degree of division oflabourtook place in the production of cigarettes, but not in the production of cigars and limpiones.From theCambridge English Corpus Whilelabourdemand is modelled,laboursupply is supposed to follow the demand within the framework of constant nominal wage rates.From theCambridge English Corpus The 1859 law allowed the registration of haciendas andlabourcontracts, but the $.10 per contract charge acted as a disincentive to the system's use.From theCambridge English Corpus A claim of dominion was used, in turn, to legitimise the town's right to call on the indigenous population forlabourservice.From theCambridge English Corpus Several were relatively young or had a young spouse, and theirlaboursustained a capital base sufficient to withstand one health or economic crisis.From theCambridge English Corpus As a simplified representation of the farmlabourforce, the farmer carries out tasks on both sows and batches.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithlabourlabourThese are words often used in combination withlabour. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. agricultural labour The increase in agricultural capital raisesagriculturallabourproductivity. From theCambridge English Corpus bonded labour This process of asset transfer, looting and self-liquidation, like that of debt and bonded labour, is intimately connected with the logic and operation of aid. From theCambridge English Corpus cheap labour In order to exploit the tropical rent, abundant andcheaplabourwas required. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/labour## |