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laboring

/ley-ber/US // ˈleɪ bər //UK // (ˈleɪbə) //

劳动,劳动的,劳动者,劳动强度

Related Words

job工作,职务,工作机会,工作岗位industry行业,工业,产业,业界employment就业,雇佣,雇用,就业情况energy能源,能量,能源方面,能源问题activity活动,活动情况,活动性,活動worker工人,工作者,劳动者,工友work force工作队伍,劳动力,工作团队,劳动队伍laborer劳动者,劳工,工作者,工人toil劳累,劳作,劳动,劳苦tend倾向,倾向于,倾向性,趋向sweat汗水,汗液,汗,发汗strive争取,努力,力争,努力奋斗exertion用力,用功,用力情况,用力程度pull牵引,牵引力,牵引物,牵引器chore琐事,烹饪,琐碎的工作,舞蹈travail工作,劳动,工作机会,劳动强度strain应变,应力,应变能力,应变性diligence勤奋,勤勉,勤奋工作,兢兢业业stress压力,压力大,压力过大grind碾磨,碾压,磨削,碾碎

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
    • : the body of persons engaged in such activity, especially those working for wages.
    • : this body of persons considered as a class.
    • : physical or mental work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind; toil.
    • : a job or task done or to be done.
    • : the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.
    • : the interval from the onset of these contractions to childbirth.
    • : Also called Labor Department .Informal. the Department of Labor.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to perform labor; exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.
    • : to strive, as toward a goal; work hard: to labor for peace.
    • : to act, behave, or function at a disadvantage: to labor under a misapprehension.
    • : to be in the actual process of giving birth.
    • : to roll or pitch heavily, as a ship.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to develop or dwell on in excessive detail: Don't labor the point.
    • : to burden or tire: to labor the reader with unnecessary detail.
    • : British Dialect. to work or till.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbwork very hard
Synonyms
strive争取,努力,力争,努力奋斗sweat汗水,汗液,汗,发汗tend倾向,倾向于,倾向性,趋向toil劳累,劳作,劳动,劳苦cultivate培养,栽培,培育,培植drive驱动器,驱动,驾驶,驱动力drudge德拉吉,德鲁吉,德鲁杰,德鲁伊endeavor努力,尽力而为,尽力,奋进grind碾磨,碾压,磨削,碾碎plod蹒跚学步,蹒跚而行,蹒跚前行,蹒跚学步的人slave奴隶,奴仆,奴隶制,奴才strain应变,应力,应变能力,应变性struggle奋斗,挣扎,斗争,奋斗目标travail工作,劳动,工作机会,劳动强度bear down忍耐,忍耐力,忍受,忍耐力下降exert oneself出力,奋力,奋发,勉力plug away插上插头,插上电源,插销,插手pour it on浇灌吧,浇灌,灌注吧,浇水work oneself to the bone鞠躬尽瘁死而后已,胼手胝足地工作,鞠躬尽瘁

Examples

  • If companies are found to have used forced labor from the region, they could be prosecuted for securities violations.

  • You see, if it wasn’t for child labor, I don’t know if I’d be here.

  • More than 300 captive people labored there as both skilled and unskilled workers.

  • In New Bedford, Massachusetts, an indigenous Guatemalan labor leader has heard complaints from adult workers in the fish-packing industry who say they’re losing their jobs to 14-year-olds.

  • The company claims up to a 95-percent reduction in labor required to construct its prefab homes, which would free up those contractors to build more.

  • Rescue workers had been laboring at ground zero every hour since the disaster.

  • The key for Santorum is being able to rebuild the supporter infrastructure that he spent so much time laboring to create in 2012.

  • Bartilla is laboring with an immediate crisis with basic services.

  • Ruettiger struggled to even get admitted to Notre Dame, laboring through junior college where he was diagnosed as dyslexic.

  • The U.S. military, meanwhile, it seemed to me was laboring under an entirely different misapprehension.

  • It now became evident, even to the infatuated Gray, that Mrs. Irvin was laboring under the influence of tremendous excitement.

  • "Laboring People" followed in 1881, when Kielland sold out his business and became purely a man of letters.

  • If you meet with Christian hermits in the solitudes, serving God and laboring with their hands, do them no harm.

  • Nothing could have relieved Boggs from the suspense under which he was laboring more than this last remark.

  • As a rule strikes do not occur where laboring men are treated with the consideration due them as free citizens.

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