labour  /l'eb,ɑʊr/  /l'ebɚ/

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  labo(u)r
  U勞動,工作;努力;C工作,活計;勞力,勞方;分娩,陣痛;工黨(vi.)勞動,苦幹

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  labour
  勞動,努力,工作,勞工,工人,分娩(vi.)勞動,努力,苦幹(vt.)詳細分析,麻煩

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Labor \La"bor\, n. [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F.
     labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to
     get, seize.] [Written also {labour}.]
     1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when
        fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from
        sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some
        useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like;
        servile toil; exertion; work.
  
              God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to
              men Successive.                       --Milton.
  
     2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
        compiling a history.
  
     3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
        which demands effort.
  
              Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
              performance thereof we may rather wish than look
              for.                                  --Hooker.
  
     4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
  
              The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity;
              and feared She'll with the labor end. --Shak.
  
     5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
  
     6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
        in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  
     7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
        an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.
  
     Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
          painstaking. See {Toll}.

資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
     {Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.]
     1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
        painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
        work; to toil.
  
              Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
        design; to strive; to take pains.
  
     3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
        work under conditions which make it especially hard,
        wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
        a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
        formerly with of.
  
              The stone that labors up the hill.    --Granville.
  
              The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope.
  
              To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
  
              Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
              and I will give you rest.             --Matt. xi. 28
  
     4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  
     5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
        sea. -- Totten.

資料來源(5): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  labour
       n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
            for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
            field" [syn: {labor}, {working class}, {proletariat}]
       2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
          the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
          [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail},
           {childbed}]
       3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
          characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
          the socialization of key industries [syn: {Labour Party},
          {Labor Party}, {Labor}]
       4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
          "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn: {labor},
           {toil}]
       v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
            "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {toil},
             {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
       2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for
          years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little
          to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her
          doctoral thesis" [syn: {tug}, {labor}, {push}, {drive}]
       3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: {labor}]