1.[u]劳动；（尤指）体力劳动work, especially physical work
manual labour(= work using your hands)体力劳动
The price will include the labour and materials.此价格中包含人工费和材料费。
The company wants to keep down labour costs .公司想保持低劳动成本。
The workers voted to withdraw their labour(= to stop work as a means of protest) .工人投票决定罢工以示抗议。
He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp(= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) .他被判处两年劳改。
2.[c][usupl]任务；（一段时间的）工作a task or period of work
He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.他工作了一天疲惫不堪，便直接上床休息了。
3.[u]（统称）劳工，工人；劳动力the people who work or are available for work in a country or company
a shortage of labour劳动力的短缺
Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour .雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。
Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive.修理需要熟练技工，人工费会很昂贵。
good labour relations(= the relationship between workers and employers)良好的劳资关系
4.[u][c][ususing]分娩期；分娩；生产the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby
Jane was in labour for ten hours.简分娩花了十个小时。
She went into labour early.她早产了。
labour pains分娩时的阵痛
5.[singspv]英国工党the British Labour Party
He always votes Labour.他老是投工党的票。
Labour was/were in power for many years.工党曾执政多年。
1.[i]努力做（困难的事）to try very hard to do sth difficult
He was in his study labouring away over some old papers.他在书房里潜心研究一些旧材料。
They laboured for years to clear their son's name.他们为洗刷儿子的罪名努力争取了许多年。
2.[i]干苦力活to do hard physical work
We laboured all day in the fields.我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。
the labouring classes(= the working class)工人阶级
3.[i](+ adv./prep.)困难吃力地行进to move with difficulty and effort
The horses laboured up the steep slope.那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。
"The emphasis has been a bit more on labour [standards] but environmental issues are going to become more important, " he said.
他表示：“人们对劳动（标准）的重视已经有了一点提高，但环境问题将变得更为重要。”
That will be hard, because Labour has had its revolution and Mr Brown was at the heart of it.
而那非常困难，并且工党在改革，而布朗则是改革的核心。
From about the middle of the Eighteenth Century the improvement in agricultural technique began to make it possible to economize in labour.
自十八世纪中叶前后起，由于农业技术的改进，节约劳动力开始成为可能。
My very best is what you get, now and forever, so what you see is all I have in those moments of being in labour.
我所能做的最大努力就是你们所能得到的，从现在直到永远，因此你们现在看到的是我在分娩时刻的阵痛。
For a time the news delighted labour MPs and trade union stalwarts: the city, at last, ws getting a taste of its own nasty medicine.
这条消息使工党的议员们和工会的忠贞分子高兴了好一阵：伦敦商业区终于快要得到同样苦涩的报应。
It has been a labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.
这一直是一个我们对人类的爱的劳作，一个以造物主之名的服务。
Prof Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.
纳特教授在被前工党内政大臣艾伦·约翰逊解雇后仍然不愿意停止他在抗击毒品上所做的努力。
Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.
她的竞选演讲就是一个恒久的提醒，她对所有事务是如何地了解，不管是外交政策还是劳动关系。
Such gloom is not what was promised in the early years of the Labour government.
这道阴霾并不在早年工党的承诺中。
Some describe how their cars' batteries can suddenly die while trying to overtake or labour up a hill.
一些车主详细描述：当试图超车或缓慢艰难爬坡时，车电瓶就突然失效。
"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.
其推动因素就是中国新的《劳动合同法》（LabourContractLaw）——经过两年的激烈辩论，新法于今年1月开始生效。
My wife complains about poor labour policies, the "fact" that Walmart squeezes suppliers, and that it puts local shops out of business.
我的妻子则抱怨其恶劣的劳工政策、其压榨供应商及导致地方商店倒闭的“事实”。
On October 3rd he said Fiat would pull out of Confindustria(10), Italy's employers' association, and negotiate its own labour deals.
就在10月3日，他宣布退出意大利的雇主联盟协会-工业联盟。
Yet in the automobile industry, at least, Japanese companies stand out for the frequency and seriousness of recent labour problems.
然而至少在汽车行业，在最近的劳资问题中，涉及日本公司的频率和严重程度都很突出。
Where the islands of capitalism met the sea of subsistence labour, there was not a "beach" , but a "cliff" .
在经济特区吸引到足够的劳动力之前，横梗于路上的不是一个“沙滩”，而是一个“悬崖”。
In 1999 the Labour government made it a priority to reduce rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, and renewed it in 2008.
1999年，劳工部着重清扫了无家可归者最易被察觉的粗陋的躺大街行为，2008年又一次重申这一做法。
The city's labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.
该市人才多为高技术精英，而受衰退冲击最严重的乃低技术人员。
She was unfazed by it. She did not look like someone who had just been sentenced to three years' hard labour.
她看上去并不像个刚被判处三年苦役的人。
The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
是我的劳动将它们脱离共有状态的，确定了我对它们的财产权。
I found myself thinking that those words would worry me, if I were Alistair Darling, the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
我发现自己在想：倘若我是上届工党财政大臣艾利斯坦·达利，这些言语会令我坐立不安。
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