labor

英[ˈleɪbə]美[ˈleɪbər]

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；

v.努力争取(for)，苦干，详细分析；

adj.劳工的，工会的，（常大写）（英国或英联邦国家）工*的；

vi.（指引擎）缓慢而困难地运转；

第三人称单数：labors;

过去式：labored;

过去分词：labored;

现在分词：laboring;

例句

the puissance of the labor vote.民众选票的力量很大

They live by honest labor.他们靠正当劳动生活。

the White House liaison to organized labor白宫与工会的联络人

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。 ——Robert Louis Stevenson英国作家史蒂文森出自：英语名言

A little labor, much health.适量劳动健身大有益。; 适量劳动健身大有益.; 量劳动健身大有益.;出自：英语谚语

Contact the financial departments and labor unions in Lhasa.联系驻市金融部门、市总工会.

It's May 1 st, international Labor Day.今天是 “ 五一节”, 国际劳动节.

In the solar calendar, May the first is International Labor Day.阳历五月一日是国际劳动节.

In China, we celebrate International Labor Day on May 1.在中国, 我们在5月1日庆祝国际劳动节.

I want labor to understand the inner workings of the company.我愿意让劳工了解公司内部的工作情况.

英语六级真题

Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

Changing the current energy system requires the systematic training of professionals and skilled labor.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

In sum:generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market,but they also tend to diminish their careers.

Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入) confidence about having children.

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed

The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated.

To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor

They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

They are no match for illegal immigrants in labor skills

They had some labor problems, so your order will be shipped late.

A labor dispute at a bus company

Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

The division of labor between men and women.

However, it is farmers that are pushing for the advancements due to ever-increasing labor vacancies, making it difficult to maintain large-scale operations.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, "Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest."

The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.

英英词典释义

Noun

1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages);

2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages;

3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child;

4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)

5. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

Verb

1. strive and make an effort to reach a goal;

2. work hard;

3. undergo the efforts of childbirth

行业词典

医学： 分娩，生产：雌性机体将胎儿由子宫经阴道排出的功能。分娩可分为4个产程：第一产程(扩张期)，从规律性子宫收缩开始至宫口完全扩张、阴道潮红，到全产道扩张、潮红。第二产程(娩出期)，自第一产程末开始至婴儿完全娩出。第三产程(胎盘期)，自婴儿娩出开始至胎盘和胎膜娩出。第四产程指分娩后1或2小时，在此期内子宫紧张性恢复起来；

药学： 产程；