- work, especially hard physical work劳动（尤指重体力劳动）：
the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT
修理价格包括人工、零件和增值税
manual labour.
体力劳动。
- workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively总称劳动者, 劳工：
non-union casual labour.
非工会会员的临时工人。
- such workers considered as a social class or political force劳工阶级, 工人阶级：
as modifier the labour movement.工人运动。
- as modifier( Labour) a department of government concerned with a nation's workforce（政府的）劳工部门：
the post of Labour Secretary.
劳工部部长的职位。
- ( Labour)treated as sing. or pl. the Labour Party工党。
- the process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery分娩：
a woman in labour.
产妇。
Labour
- of, relating to, or supporting the Labour Party（有关）工党的, 支持工党的：
the Labour leader.
工党领袖。
- work hard; make great effort苦干, 努力：
they laboured from dawn to dusk in two shifts
他们分两班从早干到晚
it now looks as if the reformers had laboured in vain.
现在看来改革者的努力似乎白费了。
- work at an unskilled manual occupation从事非技术性体力工作：
he was eking out an existence by labouring
他靠做体力活糊口
as adj. labouring the labouring classes.劳工阶层。
- with obj. archaic till (the ground)〈古〉耕（地）：
the land belonged to him who laboured it.
耕者有其田。
- have difficulty in doing something despite working hard勉为其难地苦干; 干得吃力但仍难应付：
Coleraine laboured against confident opponents.
科勒莱恩吃力地招架着自信的对手。
- (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty（引擎）发着噪声费力地运转：
the wheels churned, the engine labouring.
轮子剧烈摇动, 发动机费力并轰隆轰隆地运转着。
- with adverbial of direction move or proceed with trouble or difficulty费力地移动（或前进）：
they laboured up a steep, tortuous track.
他们顺着陡峭、曲折的小路费力地前进。
- (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily（船）颠簸摇晃。
a labour of Hercules
- 见HERCULES.
a labour of love
- a task done for pleasure, not reward只求乐趣不计报酬的工作。
labour the point
- explain or discuss something at excessive or unnecessary length啰唆地解释（或讨论）。
labour under
- carry (a very heavy load or object) with difficulty费力地搬（重物）。
- be deceived or misled by (a mistaken belief)被（错误想法）蒙蔽（或误导）：
you've been labouring under a bit of a misapprehension.
你被一点点误会蒙蔽了。