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1. Oxford Dictionary

   labour

   • IPA[ˈleɪbə]

   英式

   • n.
     work, especially physical work；workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively
   • v.
     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

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. work, especially physical work the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT manual labour 同義詞 task, job, chore, undertaking, mission, ... 更多commission, assignment
   • ▪ workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively non-union casual labour 同義詞 workers, employees, workmen, workforce, staff, ... 更多working people, blue-collar workers, hands, labourers, labour force, hired hands, proletariat, wage-earners, manpower, human resources, personnel, humorousliveware反義詞 management
   • ▪ 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 childbirth, birth, birthing, delivery, nativity, ... 更多contractions, labour pains, labour pangs, labour throes, technicalparturition, archaicconfinement, accouchement, lying-in, childbed, travail
   • 4. rare a group of moles a labour of moles toils with the Earth

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. work hard; make great effort they laboured from dawn to dusk she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks 同義詞 work (hard), toil, slave (away), grub away, plod away, ... 更多grind away, sweat away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, overwork, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/dog/slave, keep one's nose to the grindstone, informalslog away, kill oneself, plug away, put one's back into something, peg away, graft, archaicdrudge, travail, moil反義詞 rest, relax, laze
   • ▪ 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 strive, struggle, endeavour, work, try hard, ... 更多make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give (it/something) one's all, go all out, fight, push, be at pains, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself, informalbend/fall/lean over backwards, give it one's best shot, pull out all the stops
   • ▪ 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

   片語

   • labour of Hercules
   • labour of love
   • labour the point
   • labour under