labour
美 [ˈleɪbər]英 [ˈleɪbə(r)]
- n.劳动；劳动力；分娩；工人
- v.努力做（困难的事）；干苦力活；困难吃力地行进
第三人称单数：labours 现在分词：labouring 过去式：laboured
laboursurplus labour,manual labour,physical labour,skilled labour,hard labour
labour transfer,use labour,labour point
labour
劳动work
1.[u]劳动；（尤指）体力劳动work, especially physical work
2.[c][usupl]任务；（一段时间的）工作a task or period of work
劳动者people who work
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
分娩having baby
4.[u][c][ususing]分娩期；分娩；生产the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby
政治politics
5.[singspv]英国工党the British Labour Party
IDM
a labour of love
为爱好而做的困难工作a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
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"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。”
2
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。
3
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。
4
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。
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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。
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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。
7
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。
8
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。
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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。
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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。
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"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。
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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”。
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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。
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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。
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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”。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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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It was as if he had to labour, and metaphorically sweat, before his genius could, or was allowed to, emerge.
似如在他的天赋可能显露或被接受前，他必须劳动，付出汗水。
22
Lenovo said the cuts would save the company $250m a year in labour costs.
联想表示，裁员将为公司每年节省人力成本2.5亿美元。
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failure on the part of the employing unit to pay labour remuneration or to provide working conditions as agreed upon in the labour contract.
用人单位未按照劳动合同约定支付劳动报酬或者提供劳动条件的。
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Another finding was that fertility rates have declined in those parts of Morocco and Turkey that export labour to Europe.
报告的另一项发现是，在摩洛哥和土耳其向欧洲输出劳动力的地区，生育率有所下降。
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Speakers from Telford's Labour-controlled council talked about its "urban heartland" , as if it were the Bronx.
来自特尔福德议会（由工党执政）的发言人大谈特谈其“城市中心地位”，搞得自己好像布朗克斯一样。
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Many people seem to have dropped out of the labour force for good, perhaps to retire, collect disability, or return to education.
许多人似乎已经永远退出了劳动力群体，也许是退休了，也许领取了残疾证，或接受继续教育。
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New Labour, as the name suggests, made a fetish of youth; Tony Blair went out of his way to speak of Britain as a "young country" .
工党，正如其名，疯狂的迷恋年轻人；布莱尔努力把英国描述成一个“年轻的国家”。
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Changing times have pushed the question of labour back to the top of the agenda.
时代的变革令劳工问题重新成为议事日程的要务。
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But, to his lasting frustration, he never unravelled the mystery of what triggers labour in humans.
但是让他一直沮丧的是，他无法解释引发人类生产的谜底。
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It is not yet fully clear how much money this top rate of tax, introduced by the former Labour government, will raise.
这一最高税率是由前工党政府推行的，目前还不是很清楚该税率能为政府筹到多少钱。