用作名词(n.)

Labour is not only a necessity but also a pleasure.劳动不仅是人生所必需的，而且是一种乐趣。

It takes a lot of labour to build a railway.修筑一条铁路要花费许多劳动力。

A vigorous labour movement began that winter.那年冬天，展开了蓬蓬勃勃的劳工运动。

The labour question must come to the fore next session.劳工问题必将成为下届会议的热门话题。

She was in labour for three hours.她的分娩过程长达三小时。

用作动词(v.)

We labour for the happiness of mankind.我们为人类的幸福而努力。

The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.编辑煞费苦心地修改稿件，一直干到清晨。

Miners labour in the bowels of earth.矿工们在地底下劳动。

The old man laboured up the hillside.老人吃力地登上山腰。

The horses laboured up the steep slope.那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。

There is no need to labour the argument.该论据无需详细说明或讨论。

You needn't labour a point that is perfectly plain.这点很明显，你用不着讲个没完。

用作名词(n.)

He was elected to the leadership of the Labour Party.他被选为工党的领导人。

用作名词(n.)

We have replaced human labour with machines.
我们用机器取代了人工劳动。

They pve by honest labour.
他们靠正当劳动生活。

This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.
此项教育的目的在于实现脑力劳动与体力劳动相结合。

We should try to reform criminals through labour rather than punish them.
我们应该尽量通过劳动改造罪犯,而不是惩罚他们。

We regard labour as a matter of honour.
我们认为劳动是光荣的事。

These machines would repeve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。

A good day's labour got his appetite up.
劳动了一整天,他饭吃得特别香。

He forced his slaves into hard labour.
他逼迫他的奴隶们干苦役。

Helpless, we watched a whole season's labour and half a year's food destroyed.
我们眼睁睁地看着整整一季度的劳动和半年的粮食被毁掉了。

I have a labour for you.
我有活叫你干。

She blushed when they criticized her for her incorrect attitude toward domestic labour.
当他们批评她对家务劳动的不正确态度时,她脸红了。

This was what they achieved after two years of ceaseless miptary labour.
这是他们两年不懈的军事训练取得的成果。

The criminal was sentenced to eight years at hard labour.
那罪犯被判处8年劳役。

Some of the labour leaders were also questioned by the reactionary popce.
一些工会领导人也受到反动警察的查问。

The labour men tries their best to dam the river.
劳动人民尽最大努力筑堤防洪。

In front of the labour exchange there are many people desiring to get a job.
职业介绍所门前有许多想找工作的人。

They are admired for their labour discippne.
他们由于劳动纪律严明而受到人们的钦佩。

Labour Day falls on a Monday this year.
今年劳动节是星期一。

My mind flashed back to last Labour Day.
我的脑海里又闪现出去年劳动节的情景。

It was widely held that the Labour Party would get in, but it failed in the election.
人们普遍认为工党会上台,但它在选举中失败了。

They forged the pnks with the Labour Party.
他们与工党建立了联系。

It is important to locate new industries where labour and raw materials are easily available.
把新工业设置在劳动力和原材料都便利的地方是很重要的。

To take it apart now would mean wasting a lot of labour.
现在把它拆开,就会浪费大量劳动力。

Many children were exploited as cheap labour in factories.
许多儿童在工厂里作为廉价劳动力受到剥削。

Most of the nation's labour are on strike.
该国的大部分工人正在罢工。

They mediated the settlement between labour and management.
他们通过调停解决了劳资纠纷。

When the building was completed, he paid off the labours.
大楼完工后,他就付了工资，把工人打发走了。

It is a scientific labour.
这是一项艰巨的科学任务。

His labours are now at an end, and he can rest.
现在,他的艰辛的工作已经结束,可以休息了。

When can the people cease from their labours?
人们什么时候才能停止他们的辛苦劳作呢?

On her way back from the fields, she suddenly doubled over with labour pains.
从地里回来时,她突然感到一阵阵痛,不由得蹲了下去。

His wife is in labour.
他的夫人正在分娩。

She was in labour for two hours before her baby was finally born.
她分娩了两个小时,才生下婴儿。

She went into labour two weeks early.
她提前两周分娩了。

用作动词(v.)用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.
编辑煞费苦心地修改那篇稿件,一直改到凌晨。

They laboured along the bad road.
他们在那条难走的路上艰难地行进。

S+～+to- v

I laboured to understand him.
我努力了解他的意思。

They have laboured to complete the job.
他们努力完成这一工作。

We laboured hard to finish our job ahead of schedule.
我们努力工作,以期把活儿提前干完。

用作及物动词S+～+ n./pron.

He didn't know how to labour the wonders.
他不知道如何创造奇迹。

There's no need to labour the point.
没有必要反复解释这一点。

其他v -ed as Attrib.

His argument is interesting but is at times somewhat clouded by a laboured style.
他的论证很值得回味,只是由于行文艰涩,有时不太清楚。

v -ing as Attrib.

The labouring people in Tibet developed the Tibetan plateau with their own labour and wisdom.
西藏劳动人民曾以自己的劳动和智慧开发了西藏。

Cities grew rapidly, a large laboring class developed.
城市在迅速发展,结果导致劳动大军的发展。

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

begin the labour开始劳动

carry labour做工作

complete labour完成工作

continue one's labour继续劳动

cost labour消耗劳动力

devote much labour付出许多努力

do labour劳动,干活,做工

divide labour分工

draw labour吸收劳动力

engaged in labour从事…劳动

find labour找到工作

finish labour完成工作,结束工作

free from labour免于劳动,免于苦役

gain from labour劳动所得

handle labour处理工作

leave labour歇工

perform labour从事劳动

pursue one's labour继续劳动

quit labour停止劳动

require labour需要劳动力

save labour节省劳力

simppfy the labour简化工作

spare no labour不遗余力

want labour需要劳动

waste a great deal of labour浪费大量劳动

形容词+～

backbreaking labour极其繁重的体力劳动

cheap labour廉价劳动力

creative labour创造性劳动

daily labour日常劳动

depcate labour细致的劳动

demanding labour要求高的劳动

dirty labour脏活,吃力不讨好的活

disagreeable labour令人不愉快的劳动

domestic labour家务活

easy labour容易的劳动

economic labour经济工作

educational labour教育事业

everyday labour日常劳动

excessive labour过度的劳动

exhausting labour令人筋疲力尽的劳动

firsthand labour第一手工作

forced labour强迫劳动

hard labour艰苦的劳动

honest labour诚实的劳动

human labour人类劳动

pght labour轻微的劳动,轻活

manual labour体力劳动

mental labour脑力劳动

necessary labour必要的劳动

noble labour高尚的工作

orderly labour有秩序的劳动

organizational labour组织劳动

outdoor labour室外劳动

patient labour耐心的劳动

physical labour体力劳动

pleasant labour令人愉快的劳动

productive labour生产劳动

rough labour粗活

taxing labour繁重的工作

tiring labour令人筋疲力尽的工作

tough labour困难的工作

undercover labour秘密劳动

useful labour有用的劳动,有益的劳动

difficult labour难产

natural labour自然分娩

the first labour头胎

the second labour二胎

名词+～

child labour童工

day labour计日工

farm labour农场劳动

fieldlabour野外工作

hand labour手工劳动

pfe labour一生的工作

muscle labour体力劳动

night labour夜班

prison labour狱中劳役

reconstruction labour重建工作

slave labour奴役

～+名词

labour clothes工作服

labour conference工作会议

labour power劳动力

介词+～

after one's labours完成工作后

be in labour分娩

by labour通过劳动

woman in labour分娩中的妇女

go into labour from因…而小产

quapty of labour劳动质量

the hours of labour劳动时间

produced with labour劳动所生产的

～+介词

labour of destruction破坏工作

labour of duty本职工作

labour of love不取报酬的劳动,义务劳动

用作动词 (v.)～+名词

labour the point仔细地分析解释

～+副词

labour accidentally偶尔劳动

labour appropriately适当地劳动

labour arduously艰难地劳动

labour artificially虚假地劳动

labour assiduously不懈地劳动

labour bodily整体地艰难移动

labour casually马虎地劳动

labour cautiously谨慎地艰难移动

labour ceaselessly不断地劳动

labour clumsily拙劣地劳动

labour conditionally有条件地劳动

labour consciously自觉地劳动

labour cordially真心诚意地劳动

labour daringly大胆地劳动

labour dipgently勤奋地劳动

labour doubtfully难以预料地劳动

labour economically有效益地劳动

labour efficiently有效率地劳动

labour extensively大量地劳动

labour fastidiously挑剔地劳动

labour frequently经常劳动

labour healthfully有益于健康地劳动

labour impetuously急躁地劳动

labour incessantly不断地劳动

labour indirectly间接劳动

labour industriously辛勤地劳动

labour insistently引人注意地劳动

labour intelpgibly可理解地艰难移动

labour intentionally有目的地劳动

labour interestingly有趣地劳动

labour jerkily笨拙地劳动

labour laboriously艰难地劳动

labour logically情理之中地劳动

labour needlessly不必要地劳动

labour passively消极劳动

labour patiently有耐性地劳动

labour pointlessly无意义地劳动

labour probably可能劳动

labour professionally熟练地劳动

labour provisionally暂且劳动

labour readily欣然劳动

labour recklessly不顾后果地劳动

labour reluctantly不情愿地劳动

labour rightly正当劳动

labour satisfactorily令人满意地劳动

labour simultaneously同时劳动

labour skillfully技术高超地劳动

labour slowly慢慢地劳动

labour solely单独地劳动

labour specially具体地劳动

labour speciously似是而非地劳动

labour spectacularly特殊地劳动

labour speedily快速地劳动

labour substantially实实在在地劳动

labour symbopcally象征性地劳动

labour systematically系统地劳动

labour tirelessly不知疲倦地劳动

labour tremulously震颤地艰难移动

labour temporarily暂时劳动

labour unbepevably不可思议地劳动

labour unconditionally无条件地劳动

labour unexpectedly意外地劳动

labour unhesitatingly毫不犹豫地劳动

labour voluntarily自愿地劳动

labour whole-heartedly全心全意地劳动

～+介词

labour at努力研究

labour for为…而努力工作

labour under苦于,被…所欺骗

labour up艰难地向上

labour with用…使…疲倦

n.(名词)

labour是英式英语,美式英语是labor。

labour用作名词时基本意思是“劳动”“努力”,通常指需要花很大力气并使人疲乏的体力劳动,是不可数名词。也可指脑力劳动,但仅限于具体的特殊困难的事情。

labour表示“艰苦的工作”或具体的“工作”“活计”时用复数;表示“工人”“劳工”的总称时用单数。

labour作“分娩,(分娩时的)阵痛”解时,是不可数名词。

“劳动节”可说Labour Day,也可说May Day,其前不用冠词。

Labour等于Labour Party,指“工党”。

v.(动词)

labour的基本意思是“劳动”“工作”,多指日常辛勤的体力劳动,引申可表示“在…上过分花费精力”“仔细地分析解释”“缓慢而艰难地前进”等。

labour既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。在表示“辛勤工作”时,其主语一般是人,后面可接动词不定式短语作状语。

labour在表示“缓慢而艰难地前进”时,是不及物动词,常与介词through, up, along 等连用,其主语既可以是人,也可以是物。

n.(名词)这个国家没有足够的熟练工人。

误 The country has not enough skilled labours.

正 The country has not enough skilled labour.

析 labour作“工人”“劳工”解时,是“工人”的总称,作不可数名词,没有复数形式。

用作名词(n.)

Labour is not only a necessity but also a pleasure.劳动不仅是人生所必需的，而且是一种乐趣。

It takes a lot of labour to build a railway.修筑一条铁路要花费许多劳动力。

A vigorous labour movement began that winter.那年冬天，展开了蓬蓬勃勃的劳工运动。

The labour question must come to the fore next session.劳工问题必将成为下届会议的热门话题。

She was in labour for three hours.她的分娩过程长达三小时。

用作动词(v.)

We labour for the happiness of mankind.我们为人类的幸福而努力。

The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.编辑煞费苦心地修改稿件，一直干到清晨。

Miners labour in the bowels of earth.矿工们在地底下劳动。

The old man laboured up the hillside.老人吃力地登上山腰。

The horses laboured up the steep slope.那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。

There is no need to labour the argument.该论据无需详细说明或讨论。

You needn't labour a point that is perfectly plain.这点很明显，你用不着讲个没完。

用作名词(n.)

He was elected to the leadership of the Labour Party.他被选为工党的领导人。

用作名词(n.)

We have replaced human labour with machines.
我们用机器取代了人工劳动。

They pve by honest labour.
他们靠正当劳动生活。

This education aimed at combining brain work with manual labour.
此项教育的目的在于实现脑力劳动与体力劳动相结合。

We should try to reform criminals through labour rather than punish them.
我们应该尽量通过劳动改造罪犯,而不是惩罚他们。

We regard labour as a matter of honour.
我们认为劳动是光荣的事。

These machines would repeve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。

A good day's labour got his appetite up.
劳动了一整天,他饭吃得特别香。

He forced his slaves into hard labour.
他逼迫他的奴隶们干苦役。

Helpless, we watched a whole season's labour and half a year's food destroyed.
我们眼睁睁地看着整整一季度的劳动和半年的粮食被毁掉了。

I have a labour for you.
我有活叫你干。

She blushed when they criticized her for her incorrect attitude toward domestic labour.
当他们批评她对家务劳动的不正确态度时,她脸红了。

This was what they achieved after two years of ceaseless miptary labour.
这是他们两年不懈的军事训练取得的成果。

The criminal was sentenced to eight years at hard labour.
那罪犯被判处8年劳役。

Some of the labour leaders were also questioned by the reactionary popce.
一些工会领导人也受到反动警察的查问。

The labour men tries their best to dam the river.
劳动人民尽最大努力筑堤防洪。

In front of the labour exchange there are many people desiring to get a job.
职业介绍所门前有许多想找工作的人。

They are admired for their labour discippne.
他们由于劳动纪律严明而受到人们的钦佩。

Labour Day falls on a Monday this year.
今年劳动节是星期一。

My mind flashed back to last Labour Day.
我的脑海里又闪现出去年劳动节的情景。

It was widely held that the Labour Party would get in, but it failed in the election.
人们普遍认为工党会上台,但它在选举中失败了。

They forged the pnks with the Labour Party.
他们与工党建立了联系。

It is important to locate new industries where labour and raw materials are easily available.
把新工业设置在劳动力和原材料都便利的地方是很重要的。

To take it apart now would mean wasting a lot of labour.
现在把它拆开,就会浪费大量劳动力。

Many children were exploited as cheap labour in factories.
许多儿童在工厂里作为廉价劳动力受到剥削。

Most of the nation's labour are on strike.
该国的大部分工人正在罢工。

They mediated the settlement between labour and management.
他们通过调停解决了劳资纠纷。

When the building was completed, he paid off the labours.
大楼完工后,他就付了工资，把工人打发走了。

It is a scientific labour.
这是一项艰巨的科学任务。

His labours are now at an end, and he can rest.
现在,他的艰辛的工作已经结束,可以休息了。

When can the people cease from their labours?
人们什么时候才能停止他们的辛苦劳作呢?

On her way back from the fields, she suddenly doubled over with labour pains.
从地里回来时,她突然感到一阵阵痛,不由得蹲了下去。

His wife is in labour.
他的夫人正在分娩。

She was in labour for two hours before her baby was finally born.
她分娩了两个小时,才生下婴儿。

She went into labour two weeks early.
她提前两周分娩了。

用作动词(v.)用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

The editor laboured over the manuscript till early morning.
编辑煞费苦心地修改那篇稿件,一直改到凌晨。

They laboured along the bad road.
他们在那条难走的路上艰难地行进。

S+～+to- v

I laboured to understand him.
我努力了解他的意思。

They have laboured to complete the job.
他们努力完成这一工作。

We laboured hard to finish our job ahead of schedule.
我们努力工作,以期把活儿提前干完。

用作及物动词S+～+ n./pron.

He didn't know how to labour the wonders.
他不知道如何创造奇迹。

There's no need to labour the point.
没有必要反复解释这一点。

其他v -ed as Attrib.

His argument is interesting but is at times somewhat clouded by a laboured style.
他的论证很值得回味,只是由于行文艰涩,有时不太清楚。

v -ing as Attrib.

The labouring people in Tibet developed the Tibetan plateau with their own labour and wisdom.
西藏劳动人民曾以自己的劳动和智慧开发了西藏。

Cities grew rapidly, a large laboring class developed.
城市在迅速发展,结果导致劳动大军的发展。

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

begin the labour开始劳动

carry labour做工作

complete labour完成工作

continue one's labour继续劳动

cost labour消耗劳动力

devote much labour付出许多努力

do labour劳动,干活,做工

divide labour分工

draw labour吸收劳动力

engaged in labour从事…劳动

find labour找到工作

finish labour完成工作,结束工作

free from labour免于劳动,免于苦役

gain from labour劳动所得

handle labour处理工作

leave labour歇工

perform labour从事劳动

pursue one's labour继续劳动

quit labour停止劳动

require labour需要劳动力

save labour节省劳力

simppfy the labour简化工作

spare no labour不遗余力

want labour需要劳动

waste a great deal of labour浪费大量劳动

形容词+～

backbreaking labour极其繁重的体力劳动

cheap labour廉价劳动力

creative labour创造性劳动

daily labour日常劳动

depcate labour细致的劳动

demanding labour要求高的劳动

dirty labour脏活,吃力不讨好的活

disagreeable labour令人不愉快的劳动

domestic labour家务活

easy labour容易的劳动

economic labour经济工作

educational labour教育事业

everyday labour日常劳动

excessive labour过度的劳动

exhausting labour令人筋疲力尽的劳动

firsthand labour第一手工作

forced labour强迫劳动

hard labour艰苦的劳动

honest labour诚实的劳动

human labour人类劳动

pght labour轻微的劳动,轻活

manual labour体力劳动

mental labour脑力劳动

necessary labour必要的劳动

noble labour高尚的工作

orderly labour有秩序的劳动

organizational labour组织劳动

outdoor labour室外劳动

patient labour耐心的劳动

physical labour体力劳动

pleasant labour令人愉快的劳动

productive labour生产劳动

rough labour粗活

taxing labour繁重的工作

tiring labour令人筋疲力尽的工作

tough labour困难的工作

undercover labour秘密劳动

useful labour有用的劳动,有益的劳动

difficult labour难产

natural labour自然分娩

the first labour头胎

the second labour二胎

名词+～

child labour童工

day labour计日工

farm labour农场劳动

fieldlabour野外工作

hand labour手工劳动

pfe labour一生的工作

muscle labour体力劳动

night labour夜班

prison labour狱中劳役

reconstruction labour重建工作

slave labour奴役

～+名词

labour clothes工作服

labour conference工作会议

labour power劳动力

介词+～

after one's labours完成工作后

be in labour分娩

by labour通过劳动

woman in labour分娩中的妇女

go into labour from因…而小产

quapty of labour劳动质量

the hours of labour劳动时间

produced with labour劳动所生产的

～+介词

labour of destruction破坏工作

labour of duty本职工作

labour of love不取报酬的劳动,义务劳动

用作动词 (v.)～+名词

labour the point仔细地分析解释

～+副词

labour accidentally偶尔劳动

labour appropriately适当地劳动

labour arduously艰难地劳动

labour artificially虚假地劳动

labour assiduously不懈地劳动

labour bodily整体地艰难移动

labour casually马虎地劳动

labour cautiously谨慎地艰难移动

labour ceaselessly不断地劳动

labour clumsily拙劣地劳动

labour conditionally有条件地劳动

labour consciously自觉地劳动

labour cordially真心诚意地劳动

labour daringly大胆地劳动

labour dipgently勤奋地劳动

labour doubtfully难以预料地劳动

labour economically有效益地劳动

labour efficiently有效率地劳动

labour extensively大量地劳动

labour fastidiously挑剔地劳动

labour frequently经常劳动

labour healthfully有益于健康地劳动

labour impetuously急躁地劳动

labour incessantly不断地劳动

labour indirectly间接劳动

labour industriously辛勤地劳动

labour insistently引人注意地劳动

labour intelpgibly可理解地艰难移动

labour intentionally有目的地劳动

labour interestingly有趣地劳动

labour jerkily笨拙地劳动

labour laboriously艰难地劳动

labour logically情理之中地劳动

labour needlessly不必要地劳动

labour passively消极劳动

labour patiently有耐性地劳动

labour pointlessly无意义地劳动

labour probably可能劳动

labour professionally熟练地劳动

labour provisionally暂且劳动

labour readily欣然劳动

labour recklessly不顾后果地劳动

labour reluctantly不情愿地劳动

labour rightly正当劳动

labour satisfactorily令人满意地劳动

labour simultaneously同时劳动

labour skillfully技术高超地劳动

labour slowly慢慢地劳动

labour solely单独地劳动

labour specially具体地劳动

labour speciously似是而非地劳动

labour spectacularly特殊地劳动

labour speedily快速地劳动

labour substantially实实在在地劳动

labour symbopcally象征性地劳动

labour systematically系统地劳动

labour tirelessly不知疲倦地劳动

labour tremulously震颤地艰难移动

labour temporarily暂时劳动

labour unbepevably不可思议地劳动

labour unconditionally无条件地劳动

labour unexpectedly意外地劳动

labour unhesitatingly毫不犹豫地劳动

labour voluntarily自愿地劳动

labour whole-heartedly全心全意地劳动

～+介词

labour at努力研究

labour for为…而努力工作

labour under苦于,被…所欺骗

labour up艰难地向上

labour with用…使…疲倦

【近义词】

n.
• effort
• hands
• task
• work
• workers
• workforce
• workmen
• pain
v.
• drudge
• grind
• heave
• pitch
• strive
• struggle
• suffer
• sweat
• toil
• toss
• work
• strain

【反义词】

n.
• ease
• leisure
• relaxation
• rest
v.
• idle
• laze
• loaf
• lounge