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labor
时间: 2024-05-31 15:15:10

n.劳动;(尤指)体力劳动;工人;劳工;苦工;费力的工作;辛苦努力;(通常指很艰巨的)工作,活计;分娩;生产;分娩期;阵痛期;

comp.工人的;劳工的;劳资关系的;分娩的;阵痛的;分娩期的;阵痛期的;

vi.劳动;工作;努力;费力地前进;分娩;生产;颠簸摇晃;

vt.过分详尽地阐述

双语例句
  • The developments leave the airline with several problems, including an unsettled labor situation.

    事情的发展给航空公司带来了一些问题,其中包括不安定的劳工状况。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The fruit of labor is sweetest.

    劳动的果实最甜美。

  • After Labor Day we start classes.

    劳动节之后我们就开学了。

  • I'm preparing for my Labor Day trip.

    我在为劳动节旅游做准备。

  • Emotional labor is not circumstantial.

    情绪劳动不是与特定环境有关的。

  • Labor Day falls on a Monday this year.

    今年劳动节是星期一。

  • The Labor Day in 2011 falls on a Sunday.

    2011年的劳动节适逢在星期日。

  • It's May Day. They're celebrating Labor Day.

    今天是五一国际劳动节。他们正在庆祝劳动节。

  • Happy Labor Day!

    劳动节快乐!

  • In the USA, Labor Day is a national holiday.

    在美国,劳动节是一个国家节日。

  • It may help children learn the worth of labor.

    它可以帮助孩子们了解劳动的价值。

  • The labor contract between them had been violated.

    他们之间的劳动合同遭到违约。

  • They should do hard labor in the day like the Chinese do.

    他们在这天应该像中国人一样做繁重的体力劳动。

  • I soon saw it would take me twenty years of constant labor.

    我很快就意识到,这将花费我20年的持续劳动。

  • The businessman wanted his son to realize the value of labor.

    商人想让他的儿子认识到劳动的价值。

  • I will take part in a voluntary labor instead of just for fun.

    我将参加志愿劳动,而不是仅仅为了玩。

  • The emotional labor women do is noticed only when it is not done.

    女性做的情绪劳动只有在没有做的时候才会被注意到。

  • It also challenges the labor force supply and the pension system.

    这也对劳动力供给和养老金制度提出了挑战。

  • British Labor Day and International Labor Day are closely related.

    英国劳动节和国际劳动节息息相关。

  • Grass-fed beef production ends to be more labor-intensive as well.

    草饲牛肉的生产也变得更加依赖劳动力。

  • "This would hedge the exposure that exists in your labor," he said.

    他说:“这将对冲你劳动中存在的风险。”

  • The people are celebrating Labor Day. They are singing and dancing.

    人们正庆祝劳动节。他们正唱歌和跳舞。

  • These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.

    这些新的复杂情况需要用到许多国家的资金和劳动力。

  • Emotional labor can lead to difficulty in sleeping and family conflict.

    情绪劳动会导致睡眠困难和家庭冲突。

  • I'm not overstating the danger: look at what's happened to the labor force.

    我并没有夸大这种危险:去看看劳动力发生了什么事吧。

  • This "smooths" the labor market and ultimately creates more jobs for locals.

    这使劳动力市场更加平稳,最终为当地人创造了更多的就业机会。

  • Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor.

    本地的低技能工人在外国劳动力的竞争中受害最深。

  • Like domestic labor, emotional labor is generally dismissed and not labeled work.

    与家务劳动一样,情绪劳动通常被忽视,也不会被称为工作。

  • In Labor Day, may our labor bring everyone the fruits of spring. I wish you a happy family.

    劳动节愿我们的劳动带给大家春天的回报,祝您全家幸福愉快。

  • Cost-cutting here is defined as raising labor output while holding the amount of labor constant.

    这里的成本削减定义为在保持劳动力数量不变的情况下提高劳动力产出。

短语搭配
  • labor force

    劳动力

  • division of labor

    劳动力的分工

  • labor productivity

    劳动生产率

  • labor intensity

    劳动强度,劳力投入密集度

  • labor market

    劳动市场;劳工市场

  • labor contract

    n. 劳工合同

近义词
n. 劳动;工作;劳工;分娩
vi. 劳动;努力;苦干
vt. 详细分析;使厌烦
考纲分布

6年出现 31

重要程度
  • 100%

    n/v 劳动力; 劳动

考纲释义
  • n/v. 劳动力; 劳动

    英文释义:

    physical or mental exertion

    真题例句:

    • Students will understand the importance of labor.

      学生将理解劳动的重要性。

      [2021年 恩施市卷 阅读理解]
    • According to the passage, which one belongs to labor education?

      根据文章,哪一种属于劳动教育?

      [2021年 梧州市卷 阅读理解]
    • However, these life skills are important and should be taught as part of labor education.

      然而,这些生活技能很重要,应该作为劳动教育的一部分进行教授。

      [2021年 梧州市卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
考纲分布

12年出现 4

重要程度
  • 100%

    n/v 劳动力; 劳动

考纲释义
  • n/v. 劳动力; 劳动

    英文释义:

    physical or mental exertion

    真题例句:

    • Bring down the cost of labor.

      降低劳动力成本。

      [2021年 新高考II卷 阅读理解]
    • A profession that's relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is facing a labor shortage.

      这个职业几十年来主要依靠低技术手段,但面临劳动力短缺。

      [2021年 新高考II卷 阅读理解]
    • We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

      在办公室穿着干净衬衫工作的我们并不具备汽车司机拥有的能力。

      [2016年 天津卷 阅读理解]
真题例句
  • In colonies that range in size from a few hundred to tens of millions, they organize their lives with a clear division of labor.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 28

重要程度
  • 96%

    n/v 劳动力; 劳动

  • 4%

    n 劳工

  • 0%

    v 努力; 费力/时做

考纲释义
  • n/v. 劳动力; 劳动

    英文释义:

    physical or mental exertion

    真题例句:

    • For women, delayed marriage — which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men — may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

      对于女性来说,推迟结婚——在一定程度上与男性在劳动力市场上就业情形有关——可能更能解释为什么越来越多的女性住在父母家。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be a be to afford to afford to live independently of their parents.

      总体而言,自1960年以来,年轻女性在有偿劳动力市场上取得了越来越大的成功,因此越来越被期待有能力离开父母独立生活。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

      拥有大学学位的年轻人在劳动力市场上的表现远优于受教育程度较低的同龄人,这相应地使他们能更容易建立自己的家庭。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • In spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world.

      尽管近几十年来女性在教育程度和劳动力参与率方面取得了巨大进步,但年轻女性却和中年及老一代女性持相同观点,她们都认为当今世界仍然是男性主导的世界。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • n. 劳工

    英文释义:

    manual workers considered as a social class or political force

    真题例句:

    • The director general of the International Labor Organization notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

      国际劳工组织总干事指出,一些国家已经采取措施应对全球危机的影响。

      [2016年 CET4 听力]
    • The International Labor Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.

      国际劳工组织表示,失业人数正在增加。

      [2016年 CET4 听力]
  • v. 努力; 费力/时做

    英文释义:

    have difficulty in doing something despite working hard

必考短语
必考派生词
  • laboriousadj. 费时费力的;造作的;不流畅的

真题例句
  • A Bible—to be sure, a long book—required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.

    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • Conflicts between labor and management.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

12年出现 24

重要程度
  • 46%

    n/v 劳动力; 劳动

  • 33%

    n 劳工

  • 21%

    n/adj (Labor)工党

  • 0%

    v 努力; 费力/时做

考纲释义
  • n/v. 劳动力; 劳动

    英文释义:

    physical or mental exertion

    真题例句:

    • I'm not overstating the danger: look at what's happened to the labor force.

      我并没有夸大危险:看看劳动力发生了什么。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解C]
    • It is farmers that are pushing for the advancements due to ever-increasing labor vacancies, making it difficult to maintain large-scale operations.

      由于劳动力短缺的问题不断增加,使得大规模经营难以维持,所以农民才是推动发展的主体。

      [2018年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • Most researchers are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

      大多数研究人员不愿将自己的劳动成果发布到网上。

      [2017年 CET6 阅读理解]
  • n. 劳工

    英文释义:

    manual workers considered as a social class or political force

  • n/adj. (Labor)工党

    英文释义:

    the political party in Great Britain that believes in social equality, a more equal sharing out of wealth, and the rights of workers

  • v. 努力; 费力/时做

    英文释义:

    have difficulty in doing something despite working hard

必考短语
必考派生词
  • laboriousadj. 费时费力的;造作的;不流畅的

  • laborern. 劳动者;劳工

真题例句
  • Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Changing the current energy system requires the systematic training of professionals and skilled labor.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • In sum:generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market,but they also tend to diminish their careers.

    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入) confidence about having children.

    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气),\ says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are \marginally attached to the labor force\ and not actually unemployed

    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated.

    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • They are no match for illegal immigrants in labor skills

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • They had some labor problems, so your order will be shipped late.

    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • A labor dispute at a bus company

    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • The division of labor between men and women.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • However, it is farmers that are pushing for the advancements due to ever-increasing labor vacancies, making it difficult to maintain large-scale operations.

    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, \Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.\

    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
考纲分布

18年出现 54

重要程度
  • 89%

    n 劳工; 劳动力

  • 7%

    n 劳动

  • 2%

    phr (Labor Party)英国工党

  • 2%

    v 艰难工作

  • 0%

    v 分娩

考纲释义
  • n. 劳工; 劳动力

    英文释义:

    manual workers considered as a social class or political force

    真题例句:

    • American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

      几年来,美国农民一直在抱怨劳动力短缺。

      [2019年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • What is the much-argued solution to the labor shortage in U.S. farming?

      针对美国农业劳动力短缺的备受争议的解决方案是什么?

      [2019年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

      在以前技术急剧变革的时代,企业家们通过想出将劳动力和机器结合起来的方法来实现平滑过渡。

      [2018年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • n. 劳动

    英文释义:

    physical or mental exertion

    真题例句:

    • The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens's greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

      父亲入狱及黑鞋油厂打工经历所带来的羞辱给狄更斯造成了最大的伤痛,成了他心底最深的秘密。

      [2017年 英语一 阅读理解B]
    • Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.

      很少有家庭的劳动分工是冷静高效和有条不紊的。

      [2015年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.

      交易非常纯粹:员工投入数小时的体力或脑力劳动,然后拿到维持生命的一笔钱。

      [2015年 英语二 阅读理解A]
  • phr. (Labor Party)英国工党

    真题例句:

    • Labor Party has long been fighting against public-sector unions.

      工党长期以来一直与公共部门的工会斗争。

      [2012年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • Britain's Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

      英国工党,顾名思义,长期以来一直与工会主义联系在一起。

      [2012年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • v. 艰难工作

    英文释义:

    have difficulty in doing something despite working hard

  • v. 分娩

必考短语
真题例句
  • Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

    出自-2009年考研翻译原文
  • More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

    出自-2012年考研阅读原文
  • Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

    出自-2012年考研阅读原文
  • Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • 95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

    出自-2018年考研阅读原文
  • American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

    2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

    2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Britain's Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

    2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

    2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

    2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • For H&M to offer a $5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300 -plus stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

    2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that's tighter than it's been in decades.

    2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

    2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.

    2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • In the absence of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could yield strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure.

    2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

    2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

    2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building in

    2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

    2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.

    2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out.

    2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
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