Labour
[leibә]
解釋/意思:
n. toil or exertion esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.—v.i. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: (naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.—adj. Labō′rious full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.—adv. Labō′riously.—n. Labō′riousness.—adj. Lā′boured bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.—ns. Lā′bourer one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill; Lā′bourist one who contends for the interests of workmen.—adjs. Lā′bour-sav′ing intended to supersede or lessen the labour of men; Lā′boursome (Shak.) made with labour and diligence.—Labour Day a legal holiday in some parts of the United States as in New York (the first Monday in September); Labour market the supply of unemployed labour in relation to the demand for it; Labour of love work undertaken merely as an act of friendliness and without hope of emolument; Labour with to take pains to convince.—Hard labour compulsory work imposed on certain criminals in addition to imprisonment.
編輯:马丁
例句/造句/用法:
- Great was the labour; priceless the reward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Might not that woman, by her labour, have made the reparation ordained by God in paying fourfold? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only; the soldier to expect it from his pay. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I wish continued success to the labours of the Royal Society, and that you may long adorn their chair; being, with the highest esteem, dear sir, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It has been said that electrical science began with the labours of Dr. Gilbert, published in 1600. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Felix and Agatha spent more time in amusement and conversation, and were assisted in their labours by servants. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Because, whoever did, the labouring people did not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If she had been born a Queen Bee, and they labouring Bees, they could not have been more satisfied of that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He laboured faithfully in the parish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: What is this? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This was load enough to crush him, and he laboured under it day and night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You laboured to win her round; I did nothing. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This however did not prevent my writing a laboured letter, which had cost me three copies, to try to melt Colonel Quintin's heart in his favour. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
整理:利亚