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la.bour WORK Br and AusAm and Aus la.bor H5leI7bE5, $-bLn [U]practical work, esp. that which involves physical effort（体力）劳动There's so much labour involved in redecorating a house.重新装饰房间有这么多活要干。The car parts themselves are not expensive, it's the labour that costs the money.汽车零件本身并不贵，费钱的是人工。People doing jobs that involve manual labour (= hard work using the hands) use up a lot of energy.手工劳动者要费许多体力。Labour also refers to the workers themselves, esp. those who do practical work with their hands.(手工) 工人，劳力skilled/unskilled labour熟练/非熟练工人A labour camp is a place in which people are kept as prisoners and forced to do hard physical work in bad conditions.劳动营(对犯人进行强制劳动的场所)Labour day is, in some countries, a public holiday which celebrates the worker.劳动节The labour force is either all the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work or all the people who work for a particular company.劳动力; 员工Fewer teenagers are leaving school and joining the labour force at 16.在16岁中学毕业后参加工作的青少年越来越少了。The car manufacturers are planning to cut their labour force by half.汽车制造公司计划削减一半员工。Industries and methods which are labour-intensive need a lot of workers.劳动密集型的A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive.许多农业技术因为过于劳动密集而被抛弃了。The labour market is the supply of people in a particular country or area who are able and willing to work.劳动力市场More women are being encouraged into the labour market these days.现在越来越多的妇女受到鼓励进入劳动力市场。A labour of love is a piece of hard work which you do because you enjoy it and not because you will receive money or praise for it, or because you need to do it.心甘情愿做的事He's always working on his car--but it's a labour of love.他总是为汽车忙个不休----可这是他心甘情愿的。Labour relations are the relationships between employees and employers.劳资关系The firm prided itself on its good labour relations.公司为其良好的劳资关系而自豪。A labour-saving device or method is one which saves a lot of effort and time.节省劳力的A personal computer can be very labour-saving.一台个人电脑能节省很多劳力。"Love's Labour's Lost" (title of a play by William Shakespeare)《爱的徒劳》（莎士比亚剧名）
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