搜尋結果
labour
- IPA[ˈleɪbə]
英式
- work, especially 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 physical work the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT manual labour 同義詞
- ▪ workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively non-union casual labour 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ workers considered as a social class or political force the labour movement
- ▪ a government department concerned with a nation's workforce the Labour Secretary
- 2. the Labour Party the Labour leader
- 3. the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery a woman in labour 同義詞
- 4. rare a group of moles a labour of moles toils with the Earth
動詞
- 1. work hard; make great effort they laboured from dawn to dusk she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ work at an unskilled manual occupation he was eking out an existence by labouring
- ▪ archaic till (the ground) the land belonged to him who laboured it
- 2. have difficulty in doing something despite working hard United laboured against confident opponents 同義詞
- ▪ move or proceed with difficulty they laboured up a steep, tortuous track
- ▪ (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty the wheels churned, the engine labouring
- ▪ (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily the seas ran high, and the ship laboured hard
- 3. (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed