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nounverb 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。 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。 People look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labours during retirement. 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 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 It was a difficult labour.那次是难产。 Older women tend to have more difficult labours. 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。 Writing the book was a labour of love. He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime. It is now thought that the Pyramids were not built using slave labour. It is thought that Stonehenge was built using slave labour. Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue. She was in labour for ten hours. She went into labour two weeks early. The baby was born after a long labour. The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour. an increasingly competitive labour market tensions between the labour movement and government the size of the labour force women at risk of preterm labour He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp. 他被判处两年劳改。 The company wants to keep down labour costs. 公司想保持低劳动成本。 These women were generally accustomed to hard manual labour. labour (away) 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。 labour to do something 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。 We laboured all day in the fields. 我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。 (old-fashioned) the labouring classes (= the working class)工人阶级 The horses laboured up the steep slope. 那些马费力地爬上了陡坡。 With engine labouring, the car struggled up the hill. I understand what you’re saying—there’s no need to labour the point. |