labouring

英 [ˈleɪbərɪŋ]

美 [ˈleɪbərɪŋ]

n.  体力劳动
v.  努力做(困难的事); 干苦力活; 困难吃力地行进
labour的现在分词

现在分词：labouring　

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牛津词典

noun

• 体力劳动
  hard physical work that is not skilled
  1. a labouring job
     体力劳动工作

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 labor


• See also:...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.hard labour
• VERB （用手）劳动
  Someone wholaboursworks hard using their hands.
  1. ...peasants labouring in the fields...
     在地里劳作的农民
  2. Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
     她丈夫在厂里辛勤工作了17年。
• VERB 艰苦地做；吃力地做
  If youlabour todo something, you do it with difficulty.
  1. For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
     他呕心沥血地建立一个宗教社区，至今已有25个年头。
  2. ...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
     在其他各种困难下艰苦工作的小伙子
• N-UNCOUNT （总称）劳工，工人
  Labouris used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group.
  1. Latin America lacked skilled labour...
     拉丁美洲缺乏熟练工人。
  2. ...the struggle between capital and labour...
     劳资斗争
  3. They were cheap labour.
     他们是廉价劳工。
• N-UNCOUNT 劳动成果
  The work done by a group of workers or by a particular worker is referred to as theirlabour.
  1. Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour...
     每个人的劳动成果都应该获得合理的回报。
  2. The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.
     失业者没法罢工——他们没有这种实力。
• N-PROPER-COLL （英国）工党
  In Britain, people useLabourto refer to theLabour Party.
  1. He believes that, historically, Labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...
     他相信一直以来工党在帮助人民改善生活方面表现最为出色。
  2. They all vote Labour.
     他们都投工党的票。
• ADJ 工党的；支持工党的
  ALabourpolitician or voter is a member of a Labour Party or votes for a Labour Party.
  1. ...a Labour MP...
     工党下院议员
  2. Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.
     数以百万计的工党支持者没有议员代表。
• VERB 误以为；为…所蒙蔽
  If youlabour undera delusion or misapprehension, you continue to believe something which is not true.
  1. She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
     她有一个错觉，以为我知道自己在做什么。
  2. You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
     你似乎存在相当大的误解。
• VERB 一再重申；反复说明
  If youlaboura point or an argument, you keep making the same point or saying the same thing, although it is unnecessary.
  1. I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
     我不想反复重申，但还是不得不说。
• N-UNCOUNT 分娩；临盆
  Labouris the last stage of pregnancy, in which the baby is gradually pushed out of the womb by the mother.
  1. I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
     我还以为这些疼痛意味着我要生了呢。
  2. Some women prefer to move about during labour.
     有些女人喜欢在分娩期间下床走动。

英英释义

adj

• doing arduous or unpleasant work
  1. drudging peasants
  2. the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
  3. toiling coal miners in the black deeps
  Synonym:drudginglaboringtoiling

双语例句

• It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
  它现在仍旧被20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务压得喘不过气。
• In those preliberation days taxes pressed down heavily on the labouring people.
  在解放前的那些岁月里，赋税沉重地压在劳动人民身上。
• He's much given to sweeping statements about trades unions, foreigners and labouring women.
  他习惯于对工联组织、外国人及劳动妇女作过于笼统的陈述。
• The capitalist system reposes on the exploitation of the labouring people.
  资本主义制度建立在剥削劳动人民的基础上。
• If he thinks Susan will marry him, he is labouring under a delusion.
  如果他以为苏珊会和他结婚，那他就误了。
• They are labouring for the happiness of mankind.
  他们正为人类的幸福而努力工作着。
• These cultural relics demonstrate the great intelligence of the labouring people of ancient china.
  这些文物显示出中国古代劳动人民的高度智慧。
• We mustn't lose the good qualities of the labouring people.
  劳动人民的本色不能丢。
• They felt forced to keep labouring away because the value of their homes and investments declined.
  由于他们的住房和投资价值下降，这些人被迫继续工作。
• To the rich world, labouring under debt and political dysfunction, Chinese self-doubt might seem incongruous.
  对于被债务和政治机能失调所累的富裕世界而言，中国的自我怀疑似乎有些不合时宜。