搜尋結果
labor
- IPA[ˈlābər]
美式
- work, especially hard physical work;workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively
- work hard; make great effort;work at an unskilled manual occupation
verb: labour, 3rd person present: labours, gerund or present participle: labouring, past tense: laboured, past participle: laboured
noun: labour, plural noun: labours
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. work, especially hard physical work the price of repairs includes labor and parts manual labor 同義詞
- ▪ workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively nonunion casual labor 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ manual workers considered as a social class or political force the labor movement
- ▪ a department of government concerned with a nation's workforce Secretary of Labor
- 2. (in the UK or Canada) the Labour Party the Labour leader
- 3. the process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery his wife is in labor 同義詞
動詞
- 1. work hard; make great effort they labored from dawn to dusk she was patiently laboring over her sketchbooks 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ work at an unskilled manual occupation he was eking out an existence by laboring
- ▪ archaic till (the ground) the land belonged to him who labored it
- 2. have difficulty in doing something despite working hard Coley labored against confident opponents 同義詞
- ▪ move or proceed with difficulty they labored up a steep, tortuous track
- ▪ (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty the wheels churned, the engine laboring
- ▪ (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily the seas ran high, and the ship labored hard
- 3. (of a woman in childbirth) be in labor she labored very well and comfortably because she was relaxed