英语词汇“labors”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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Noun A day's labor should get the job done. Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor. He rested from his labors. The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor. an area in which there is a shortage of cheap labor The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor. She went into labor this morning. She has been in labor for several hours. She began to have labor pains this morning. She had a difficult labor. Verb Workers labored in the vineyard. He labored for several years as a miner. She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal. We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known. The truck labored up the hill. I have been laboring through this book for months. She has a tendency to labor the obvious. See More

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The nation’s demographic need will add to opportunities for AI and robotics, as a substitute for short labor and by enabling older Americans to work longer by reducing the physical demands of work. —

Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023 Legacy officials plan to redirect patients, including those in labor, to its Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland. —

oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023 But when the mission's land is transferred from Spain to Portugal, the Portuguese government attempts to capture the native people for labor, prompting Gabriel and Mendoza to defend themselves — and their people — from certain annihilation. —

Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023 My years of experience in the labor movement and in public life has taught me that the job is never about me. —

Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023 The announcement about Tesla workers attempting to unionize comes after a slew of unionization efforts shaped the U.S. labor movement in 2021 and 2022. —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023 Last year, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Van Jefferson's wife went into labor during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals. —

Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023 Just ahead of the game on Sunday, February 12, Hardman took to Twitter to announce that his girlfriend, Chariah Gordon, was going into labor. —

Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2023 Its priorities include child cash benefits, wage subsidies and even reviving the labor movement. —

Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023

Verb

Beyond the West Coast, though, there are limited safety rules for workers facing extreme heat, even as climate change has worsened conditions for many people who labor outdoors. —

Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022 One such person, a teen-ager named Borys Romanchenko, was sent from Ukraine to labor in a German coal mine, before being interned in the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. —

Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023 Gelatin desserts were for the elite who had cooks and servants to labor through the elaborate and time-consuming process of making gelatin, often extracted from the feet of calves or other animal parts. —

John General, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022 Will labor strife led by pilots become the airline industry’s next big obstacle? —

Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022 In our own local space-time continuum, a number of companies labor to make wireless power possible using a host of technologies, but there are two strategies that show a lot of promise, one using lasers, another using magnetic resonance. —

Eric Wolff, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2010 In addition, given that farm owners usually provide meals for those who labor in their fields all day, zhu households also were mostly excluded from trading workers with non-zhu households. —

Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018 Workers who labor 55-hour weeks are a third more likely to suffer a stroke than those working fewer than forty hours. —

Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 That may not be welcome news to the photographers and digital artists who labor to create the images that trained DALL-E and must now compete with the fruits of that training. —

Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2022

Adjective

The older Trumka was a close and powerful ally of Democrats in Washington who sought to advance pro-labor laws and regulations as private-sector union membership declined over the course of the 2000s. —

Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023 Wurst was dismayed—at Biden, whose pro-labor oath seemed disingenuous, and at Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, whose past work as a union president in Massachusetts made his betrayal all the more personal. —

E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2022 Still, Senate Democrats would be well-advised to demonstrate enthusiastic support for the sick-leave bill, because Republicans are scrambling to position themselves as more pro-labor on this issue than Democrats. —

Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022 Siding with the bosses to deny workers paid sick leave and prevent a strike is not pro-labor. —

Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022 But Biden chose the fourth and absolute worst option, compromising his credibility as a pro-labor president. —

Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022 Railroad unions on Tuesday slammed President Joe Biden's call for Congress to intervene in their contract dispute, saying the move undercuts their efforts to improve working conditions and Mr. Biden's claim to be a pro-labor leader. —

CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022 Abruzzo is also Biden’s best chance at achieving his goal to be the most pro-labor president in US history. —

Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022 Perhaps for this reason, some Democrats in the Midwest have been campaigning on a combination of a familiar pro-labor approach to the economy with a much more overt social progressivism, such as Senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, and Fetterman. —

Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022 See More

单词	labors
释义	labor 1 of 3 noun la·bor ˈlā-bər 1 a : expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory was sentenced to six months at hard labor b(1) : the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits (2) : human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy Industry needs labor for production. c : the physical activities (such as dilation of the cervix and contraction of the uterus) involved in giving birth also : the period of such labor 2 a : an economic group comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages wants the vote of labor in the elections b : the organizations or officials representing groups of workers negotiations between labor and management c(1) : workers employed in an establishment (2) : workers available for employment Immigrants provided a source of cheap labor. 3 usually Labour : the Labour party of the United Kingdom or of another part of the Commonwealth of Nations 4 : an act or process requiring labor : task The three-month project evolved into a year-long labor. 5 : a product of labor The flood destroyed the labor of years. labor 2 of 3 verb labored; laboring ˈlā-b(ə-)riŋ intransitive verb 1 : to exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort : work 2 : to move with great effort the truck labored up the hill 3 : to suffer from some disadvantage or distress labor under a delusion 4 : to be in the labor of giving birth 5 of a ship : to pitch or roll heavily transitive verb 1 : to treat or work out in often laborious detail labor the obvious 2 : distress, burden 3 : to cause to labor 4 archaic a : to spend labor on or produce by labor b : to strive to effect or achieve labor 3 of 3 adjective 1 : of or relating to labor 2 capitalized : of, relating to, or constituting a political party held to represent the interests of workers or made up largely of organized labor groups Synonyms Noun bear beast chore headache job killer Verb bang away beaver (away) dig (away) drudge endeavor fag grub hump hustle moil peg (away) plod plow plug slave slog strain strive struggle sweat toil travail tug work See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun A day's labor should get the job done. Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor. He rested from his labors. The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor. an area in which there is a shortage of cheap labor The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor. She went into labor this morning. She has been in labor for several hours. She began to have labor pains this morning. She had a difficult labor. Verb Workers labored in the vineyard. He labored for several years as a miner. She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal. We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known. The truck labored up the hill. I have been laboring through this book for months. She has a tendency to labor the obvious. See More Recent Examples on the Web Noun The nation’s demographic need will add to opportunities for AI and robotics, as a substitute for short labor and by enabling older Americans to work longer by reducing the physical demands of work. —Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023 Legacy officials plan to redirect patients, including those in labor, to its Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland. —oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023 But when the mission's land is transferred from Spain to Portugal, the Portuguese government attempts to capture the native people for labor, prompting Gabriel and Mendoza to defend themselves — and their people — from certain annihilation. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023 My years of experience in the labor movement and in public life has taught me that the job is never about me. —Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023 The announcement about Tesla workers attempting to unionize comes after a slew of unionization efforts shaped the U.S. labor movement in 2021 and 2022. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023 Last year, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Van Jefferson's wife went into labor during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals. —Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023 Just ahead of the game on Sunday, February 12, Hardman took to Twitter to announce that his girlfriend, Chariah Gordon, was going into labor. —Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2023 Its priorities include child cash benefits, wage subsidies and even reviving the labor movement. —Dana Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023 Verb Beyond the West Coast, though, there are limited safety rules for workers facing extreme heat, even as climate change has worsened conditions for many people who labor outdoors. —Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022 One such person, a teen-ager named Borys Romanchenko, was sent from Ukraine to labor in a German coal mine, before being interned in the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. —Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023 Gelatin desserts were for the elite who had cooks and servants to labor through the elaborate and time-consuming process of making gelatin, often extracted from the feet of calves or other animal parts. —John General, CNN, 19 Nov. 2022 Will labor strife led by pilots become the airline industry’s next big obstacle? —Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022 In our own local space-time continuum, a number of companies labor to make wireless power possible using a host of technologies, but there are two strategies that show a lot of promise, one using lasers, another using magnetic resonance. —Eric Wolff, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2010 In addition, given that farm owners usually provide meals for those who labor in their fields all day, zhu households also were mostly excluded from trading workers with non-zhu households. —Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018 Workers who labor 55-hour weeks are a third more likely to suffer a stroke than those working fewer than forty hours. —Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 That may not be welcome news to the photographers and digital artists who labor to create the images that trained DALL-E and must now compete with the fruits of that training. —Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2022 Adjective The older Trumka was a close and powerful ally of Democrats in Washington who sought to advance pro-labor laws and regulations as private-sector union membership declined over the course of the 2000s. —Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023 Wurst was dismayed—at Biden, whose pro-labor oath seemed disingenuous, and at Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, whose past work as a union president in Massachusetts made his betrayal all the more personal. —E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2022 Still, Senate Democrats would be well-advised to demonstrate enthusiastic support for the sick-leave bill, because Republicans are scrambling to position themselves as more pro-labor on this issue than Democrats. —Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022 Siding with the bosses to deny workers paid sick leave and prevent a strike is not pro-labor. —Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022 But Biden chose the fourth and absolute worst option, compromising his credibility as a pro-labor president. —Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022 Railroad unions on Tuesday slammed President Joe Biden's call for Congress to intervene in their contract dispute, saying the move undercuts their efforts to improve working conditions and Mr. Biden's claim to be a pro-labor leader. —CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022 Abruzzo is also Biden’s best chance at achieving his goal to be the most pro-labor president in US history. —Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022 Perhaps for this reason, some Democrats in the Midwest have been campaigning on a combination of a familiar pro-labor approach to the economy with a much more overt social progressivism, such as Senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, and Fetterman. —Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun, Verb, and Adjective Middle English, from Anglo-French labur, from Latin labor; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip — more at sleep First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1 Adjective 1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Phrases Containing labor anti-labor forced labor division of labor labor/belabor the point hard labor labor camp labor-intensive labor force labor the point labor relations labor under a delusion/misapprehension/misconception slave labor stoop labor labor union labor market organized labor labor under the misconception See More anti-labor forced labor division of labor labor/belabor the point hard labor labor camp labor-intensive labor force labor the point labor relations labor under a delusion/misapprehension/misconception slave labor stoop labor labor union labor market organized labor labor under the misconception See More Kids Definition labor 1 of 2 noun la·bor ˈlā-bər 1 : physical or mental effort especially when hard or required : toil, work 2 a : the services performed by workers for wages b : those who do labor for wages 3 : the physical efforts and pain of giving birth also : the period of such labor 4 : something that requires work : task labor 2 of 2 verb labored; laboring -b(ə-)riŋ 1 : to work hard 2 : to move with great effort the truck labored up the hill Medical Definition labor 1 of 2 noun la·bor variants or British labour ˈlā-bər : the physical activities involved in childbirth consisting essentially of a prolonged series of involuntary contractions of the uterine musculature together with both reflex and voluntary contractions of the abdominal wall drugs that induce labor went into labor after a fall also : the period of time during which such labor takes place labor 2 of 2 intransitive verb variants or British labour : to be in the labor of giving birth labors 1 of 2 noun plural of labor 1 as in headaches a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work one of the labors of Hercules in classical mythology was to clean out the stables of King Augeas Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance headaches efforts jobs chores burdens killers bears beasts lucubrations drudgeries loads nuisances troubles strains heavy liftings sweats weights grinds bothers Antonyms & Near Antonyms breezes setups kid stuff snaps duck soup child's play cinches See More 2 as in efforts the active use of energy in producing a result a superhuman amount of labor must have gone into designing and building the pyramids of Egypt Synonyms & Similar Words efforts works pains exertions expenditures energies sweats troubles toils whiles endeavors elbow grease powers muscles tries drudgeries travails strains attempts goes forces essays slogs trials grinds mights puissances passes dints stabs flings shots whacks Antonyms & Near Antonyms facilities eases inertias fluencies inactions inactivities languors quiescences dormancies indolences See More 3 as in toils very hard or unpleasant work a political dissident forced to do six months of hard labor in the salt mines as punishment Synonyms & Similar Words efforts toils exertions pains sweats fatigues drudgeries drudges travails slaveries struggles grinds responsibilities troubles moils duties obligations jobs donkeyworks chores routines treadmills spadeworks tediums Antonyms & Near Antonyms fun relaxations plays amusements rests entertainments eases reposes recreations diversions sports leisures dalliances decompressions inertias inactivities dormancies See More 4 as in childbirths the act or process of giving birth to children the mother's labor lasted for six hours Synonyms & Similar Words childbirths pregnancies deliveries contractions pains travails abortions miscarriages childbearings parturitions accouchements birth pangs confinements natural childbirths cesarean sections lying-ins childbeds caesarean sections lyings-in 5 as in productions something produced by physical or intellectual effort a small, personal film that was clearly a labor of love for the director and actors Synonyms & Similar Words productions products fruits yields works things results affairs produces handiworks outputs resultants outcomes commodities objects goods articles wares effects merchandises handicrafts entries offspring developments consequences handcrafts issues aftermaths corollaries aftereffects sequels side effects conclusions offshoots derivatives sequences outgrowths residuals offsprings byproducts lines upshots by-products spin-offs side reactions labors 2 of 2 verb present tense third-person singular of labor as in struggles to devote serious and sustained effort the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief Synonyms & Similar Words struggles works toils endeavors slaves travails drudges tugs plows strives sweats tries hustles bangs away grubs strains moils humps slogs fags plugs plods sweats blood attacks essays beavers (away) exercises digs (away) pegs (away) pitches in knuckles down scratches overworks drives exerts digs in buckles (down) ekes out overexerts applies (oneself) wades hammers (away) trudges scrabbles puts out grinds (out) Antonyms & Near Antonyms breaks slackens eases (up) rests loafs shirks dallies idles lazes lets up hangs (around or out) chills reposes bums goldbricks slacks (off) dillydallies goofs (off) lolls basks trifles lounges unwinds hacks (around) relaxes footles vegges out plays hangs veges out hangs about fribbles fools around doodles dabbles messes around goofs (around) monkeys (around) potters (around) putters (around) See More
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