labor

英[ˈleɪbə]
美[ˈleɪbər]

基本释义

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)工党的
vi.
(指引擎)缓慢而困难地运转

词性变化

实用例句

Without doubt he runs the most gracefully among them.

毫无疑问他在他们当中跑得最优雅.

期刊摘选

Though the Indian labor pool is large, it is also primarily unskilled.

印度的劳动力储备量很大, 可是基本上是没有技术的.

《简明英汉词典》

You need to rest from your labor; you look very tired.

你的样子很疲劳, 需要放下工作休息一下.

《简明英汉词典》

He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.

艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They do manual labor in the fields all the year round.

他们一年到头干农活.

《简明英汉词典》

Society does not sanction child labor.

社会认为雇用童工应当受到制裁.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.

我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬.

《简明英汉词典》

He was given 5 months'hard labor.

他被处罚做五个月的苦工.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The Labor Party was in.

工党执政.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

He mediated a settlement between labor and management.

他在劳资双方间通过调停达成和解.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They mediated the settlement between labor and management.

他们通过调停解决了劳资纠纷.

《简明英汉词典》

The charge for labor works out at almost ten shillings an hour.

付给工人的费用算下来每小时差不多十先令.

《简明英汉词典》

His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.

他的手掌因干挖土的活儿而磨破了皮.

《简明英汉词典》

Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor.

各家经营各自的农场,收获各自的劳动成果。

柯林斯例句

The trading day is shortened in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

因庆祝劳工节,这个交易日交易时间缩短了。

柯林斯例句

The British Labor Party concludes its annual conference today in Brighton.

英国工党的年度会议今天在布赖顿闭幕。

柯林斯例句

The Labor Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery.

劳工部的数据进一步印证了经济复苏状况的不稳定。

柯林斯例句

We have to balance good labor relations against the need to cut costs.

我们要在搞好劳资关系与削减开支之间保持平衡。

柯林斯例句

The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.

当前工人与管理部门的分工将会改变。

柯林斯例句

This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.

这一集体谈判原则已经成为该国劳动关系的重要基础。

柯林斯例句

Each box requires no more than a few hours of labor to build.

做成一个盒子不超过几个小时。

柯林斯例句

The mill was started up with scab labor.

罢工期间有人坚持上工,使得工厂重新开始运转。

柯林斯例句

We'vegot stable labor, decreasing interest rates, low oil prices.

我们拥有稳定的劳力、不断降低的利率以及低廉的石油价格。

柯林斯例句

Actors go through the motions of different types of labor.

演员们假装从事不同的劳动。

柯林斯例句

Next to the expense of cashiers, pricing items is one of the costliest labor costs of grocery retailers.

对食品杂货零售商来说,给货物贴价签也是劳动力成本中最为昂贵的一个部分,仅次于雇佣收银员的费用。

柯林斯例句

Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions.

劳资双方在薪水、福利和工作条件的问题上争执不下。

柯林斯例句

We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists.

我们发现在主流经济学家中间出现了一种偏离劳动理论的显著变化。

柯林斯例句

Labor economist Harley Shaekin argues the cost needs to be viewed in perspective.

工党经济学家哈利·谢金认为要客观看待成本。

柯林斯例句

The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews.

政府撤销了她丈夫管理外来打工人群的许可证。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

A Bible—to be sure, a long book—required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Conflicts between labor and management.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They are no match for illegal immigrants in labor skills

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月听力原文

A labor dispute at a bus company

出自-2013年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

The division of labor between men and women.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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."

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Britain's Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For H&M to offer a $5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300 -plus stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In the absence of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could yield strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure.

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building in

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens'greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The teachers'unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment -- including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line -- Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Your home colleagues - your family - have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they're teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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

    "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

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

    "she was in labor for six hours"

  • 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;

    "he prepared for great undertakings"

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

    "She tugged for years to make a decent living"

    "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"

    "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

  • 2. work hard;

    "She was digging away at her math homework"

    "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

  • 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth

反义词

vi.劳动;努力

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其他释义

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