labour
noun /ˈleɪbə(r)/
/ˈleɪbər/
(US English labor)
Idioms - [uncountable] 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。 - a fair division of labour between men and women
男女之间的公平分工
Topics Businessb2- The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.
矿工们威胁要罢工。 - These women were generally accustomed to hard manual labour.
这些妇女对繁重的体力劳动一般都习以为常了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- manual
- physical
- back-breaking
- …
- withdraw
- productivity
- camp
- manual labour (= work using your hands)
- [countable, usually plural] (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 look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labours during retirement.
人们盼望退休后能享受劳动成果。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- manual
- physical
- back-breaking
- …
- withdraw
- productivity
- camp
- He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.
- [uncountable] the people who work or are available for work in a country or company
（统称）劳工，工人；劳动力 - forced/slave labour
强迫/奴隶劳动 - a shortage of labour
劳动力的短缺 - Companies are making huge profits by exploiting cheap labour in poor countries.
公司通过剥削贫穷国家的廉价劳动力获取巨额利润。 - There is a growing demand for skilled labour.
对熟练劳动力的需求越来越大。 - New labour laws make it more difficult for employers to sack workers.
新劳动法使得雇主更难解雇工人。 - good labour relations (= the relationship between workers and employers)
良好的劳资关系
Wordfinder- capacity
- industry
- just-in-time
- labour
- lead time
- output
- raw material
- shipping
- supply chain
- warehouse
Wordfinder- ballot
- closed shop
- collective bargaining
- industrial action
- labour
- picket
- protest
- representative
- strike
- union
Topics Working lifeb2- 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。 - tensions between the labour movement and government
工人运动与政府之间的紧张关系
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- free
- organized
- wage
- …
- force
- market
- pool
- …
- forced/slave labour
- [uncountable, countable, usually singular] the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby
分娩期；分娩；生产 - in labour Jane was in labour for ten 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 - It was a difficult labour.
那次是难产。
Wordfinder- birth
- breech birth
- caesarean section
- contraction
- deliver
- induce
- labour
- midwife
- obstetrics
- umbilical cord
Topics Life stagesc2- Older women tend to have more difficult labours.
老年妇女往往有更困难的劳动。 - She went into labour two weeks early.
她提前两周分娩。 - The baby was born after a long labour.
这个婴儿经过很长时间的分娩才出生。 - women at risk of preterm labour
有早产危险的妇女 - Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.
在婴儿超过预产期 10 天以后进行了引产。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- difficult
- easy
- long
- …
- go into
- induce
- room
- ward
- pains
- …
- in labour
- in labour Jane was in labour for ten hours.
- Labour[singular + singular or plural verb](abbreviation Lab.)the British Labour Party
英国工党 - He always votes Labour.
他老是投工党的票。 - Labour was/were in power for many years.
工党曾执政多年。
- He always votes Labour.
work劳动
people who work劳动者
having baby分娩
politics政治
词源Middle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.
Idioms
a labour 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 - Writing the book was a labour of love.
写这本书是一项热爱的工作。
- Writing the book was a labour of love.