labour

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈleɪ.bə/    美 /ˈleɪ.bɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. countable,uncountable
    — […]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]
  2. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. countable,uncountable
    — Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
  3. Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. uncountable
    — In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
  4. A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour. uncountable
  5. The act or process of a mother giving birth. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition
  6. The time period during which a mother gives birth. countable,uncountable
  7. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. countable,uncountable
  8. A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha. countable,historical,uncountable
    — the establishment of a new settlement are entitled to five sitios of grazing land, and five labors (equal to 23,025 acres)
  9. A group of moles. countable,uncommon,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To toil, to work. intransitive
    — Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
  2. To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc). transitive
    — I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
  3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
    — the stone that labours up the hill
  4. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  5. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
    — the ship laboured so much, and took in so much water in her upper works, that we could neither eat, nor sleep dry

词形变化

labours plural labor alternative,US labours present,singular,third-person labouring participle,present laboured participle,past laboured past labor alternative,US

词汇关系

近义词
swink toil work
衍生词
anti-labour aristocracy of labour back labour big labour bonded labour child labour compound labour division of labour emotional labour forced labour hard labour in labour laborite labour action labour aristocracy labour camp labour court labouress labour exchange labour force labour-intensive labour law labour lawyer labour market labour of love labourous labour power labour relations labour-saver labour share laboursome labour theory of value labour the point labour union labour-value theory labour value theory lip-labour manual labour microlabour micro-labour mislabour mountain in labour nonlabour outlabour overlabour prelabour sexual division of labour Sisyphean labour slave labour socially necessary labour time surplus labour wage labour labour-saving labourer labourism labourist labourite marmalade labour
相关词
laborious laboural laboratory

词源

词源 1
From Middle English labor, labour, labur, from Old French labor (modern labeur) and its etymon, Latin labor.
词源 2
From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).
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