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labour 音标拼音: [l'eb ,ɑʊr] [l'ebɚ] n. 劳动,努力,工作,劳工,工人,分娩
vi. 劳动,努力,苦干
vt. 详细分析,麻烦 劳动,努力,工作,劳工,工人,分娩劳动,努力,苦干详细分析,麻烦 labour n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; " there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [ synonym: { labor}, { labour}, { working class}, { proletariat}] 2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; " she was in labor for six hours" [ synonym: { parturiency}, { labor}, { labour}, { confinement}, { lying- in}, { travail}, { childbed}] 3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor' s interests and formerly the socialization of key industries [ synonym: { British Labour Party}, { Labour Party}, { Labour}, { Labor}] 4: productive work ( especially physical work done for wages); " his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [ synonym: { labor}, { labour}, { toil}] v 1: work hard; " She was digging away at her math homework"; " Lexicographers drudge all day long" [ synonym: { labor}, { labour}, { toil}, { fag}, { travail}, { grind}, { drudge}, { dig}, { moil}] 2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; " She tugged for years to make a decent living"; " We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; " She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [ synonym: { tug}, { labor}, { labour}, { push}, { drive}] 3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [ synonym: { labor}, { labour}] Labor \ La" bor\ ( l[= a]" b[~ e] r), n. [ OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba` nein to take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [ Written also { labour}.] 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. [ 1913 Webster] God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. [ 1913 Webster] Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. [ 1913 Webster] The queen' s in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She' ll with the labor end. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Any pang or distress. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. [ 1913 Webster] 7. [ Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 1771/ 7 acres. -- Bartlett. 8. ( Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [ Sp. Amer.] [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See { Toll}. [ 1913 Webster]
Labor \ La" bor\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Laboring}.] [ OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See { Labor}, n.] [ Written also { labour}.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one' s strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. [ 1913 Webster] Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exert one' s powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one' s work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. [ 1913 Webster] The stone that labors up the hill. -- Granville. [ 1913 Webster] The line too labors, and the words move slow. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] To cure the disorder under which he labored. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -- Matt. xi. 28 [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster]
labour \ la" bour\, n. Same as { labor}; -- British spelling. [ Chiefly Brit.] [ PJC]
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