labour是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 practical work, especially when it involves hard physical effort -- 勞動；（尤指）體力勞動

  • The car parts themselves are not expensive, it's the labour that costs the money. 汽車零件本身並不貴，但人工費很高。

  • manual labour (= hard work using the hands) 體力勞動

  • skilled/unskilled labour 熟練／非熟練工人

  • Are you tired after your labours? 辛勤工作之後你覺得累嗎？

  • West was paid very little for his labours. 韋斯特的辛勤勞動只換來了微薄酬勞。

  • Retirement is the time to enjoy the fruits of your labours. 退休就是享受辛勤工作成果的時候。

• 1 the last stage of pregnancy from the time when the muscles of the womb start to push the baby out of the body until the baby appears -- 分娩期；分娩，生產，臨盆

  • labour pains 分娩時的陣痛

  • She went into (= started) labour at twelve o'clock last night. 昨晚12點她開始分娩。

  • I was in labour for twelve hours with my first baby. 我生第一個孩子用了12個小時。

  • No two labours are ever the same. 沒有兩次分娩是完全相同的。

• 2 to do hard physical work -- 勞動，勞作，做粗活

  • He travelled around Europe labouring to pay his way. 他靠打工賺路費周遊了歐洲。

  • [ + to infinitive ] Three hours after the explosion, rescue teams were still labouring to free those trapped. 爆炸發生三小時後，救援隊員還在奮力拯救被困的人。

  • He laboured up the hill with his heavy load. 他負重艱難地登上了山頂。

  • She's been labouring over the same article for days. 她為了這篇文章已經苦熬好幾天了。

• 3 the Labour Party, the political party in Great Britain that believes in social equality, a more equal sharing out of wealth, and the rights of workers -- （英國）工黨

  • Labour are sure to get in at the next election. 工黨在下屆選舉中肯定會獲勝。

  • I voted Labour in the last election. 上次選舉時我投了工黨的票。

• 4 belonging or relating to the Labour Party -- 工黨的

  • the Labour Party 工黨

  • Labour voters 支持工黨的選民

  • the Labour candidate 工黨候選人