labour

英 ['leɪbə] 美

近义词delivery

反义词

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第三人称单数: labours;过去式: laboured;过去分词: laboured;现在分词: labouring;

labour 【累吧】劳动

labour: labour: [13] Labour comes via Old French labour from Latin labor. This has been linked with the verb labāre ‘slip’, and if the two were related it would mean that the underlying etymological meaning of labour was something like ‘stumble under a burden’. Most of the modern European descendants of Latin labor have progressed from the broad sense ‘work, exertion’ to more specialized meanings – French labourer denotes ‘plough’, for instance, and Spanish labrar ‘plough, carve, embroider’, etc. English has retained it as a formal alternative to work, although the additional obstetric sense developed in the 16th century.
labour: chiefly British English spelling of labor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or. As short for "the British Labour Party" it is from 1906.

2. He's been a keen supporter of the Labour Party all his life.: 他一生都是工党的热情拥护者。

3. The Independent Labour Party was founded in Bradford on January 13, 1893.: 独立工党1893年1月13日在布拉德福德成立。

4. The Labour government has to date resisted all supplications.: 到目前为止工党政府回绝了所有的请愿求情。