Labor

['leɪbə(r)] or ['lebɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) productive work (especially physical work done for wages); 'his labor did not require a great deal of skill'.

(noun.) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; 'there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field'.

(verb.) undergo the efforts of childbirth.

(verb.) work hard; 'She was digging away at her math homework'; 'Lexicographers drudge all day long'.

乔安妮手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

(n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

(n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

(n.) Any pang or distress.

(n.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

(n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.

(n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.

(n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

(n.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

(v. t.) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

(v. t.) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.

(v. t.) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.

(v. t.) To belabor; to beat.

詹妮校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Toil, work, exertion, effort, pains, drudgery.[2]. Travail, parturition, childbirth, delivery.

v. n. [1]. Toll, strive, drudge, work, exert one's self, take pains.[2]. Suffer, be afflicted, be distressed.[3]. Travail, be in travail, be in labor.

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