manual labour (= work using your hands)
體力勞動
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The price will include the labour and materials.
此價格中包含人工費和材料費。
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The company wants to keep down labour costs .
公司想保持低勞動成本。
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The workers voted to withdraw their labour (= to stop work as a means of protest) .
工人投票決定罷工以示抗議。
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He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp (= a type of prison where people have to do hard physical work) .
他被判處兩年勞改。
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He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.
他工作了一天疲憊不堪,便直接上床休息了。
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a shortage of labour
勞動力的短缺
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Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour .
雇主正在把移民當作廉價勞動力使用。
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Repairs involve skilled labour , which can be expensive.
修理需要熟練技工,人工費會很昂貴。
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good labour relations (= the relationship between workers and employers)
良好的勞資關系
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Jane was in labour for ten hours.
簡分娩花了十個小時。
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...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...
播種、種植和收割的辛勤勞作
The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.
正在燒烤臺上忙活的廚師抬起頭來;他的臉上直冒汗。
...peasants labouring in the fields...
在地里勞作的農民
Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
她丈夫在廠里辛勤工作了17年。
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
他嘔心瀝血地建立一個宗教社區(qū),至今已有25個年頭。
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
在其他各種困難下艱苦工作的小伙子
Latin America lacked skilled labour...
拉丁美洲缺乏熟練工人。
...the struggle between capital and labour...
勞資斗爭
Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour...
每個人的勞動成果都應該獲得合理的回報。
The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.
失業(yè)者沒法罷工——他們沒有這種實力。
He believes that, historically, Labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...
他相信一直以來工黨在幫助人民改善生活方面表現(xiàn)最為出色。
They all vote Labour.
他們都投工黨的票。
...a Labour MP...
工黨下院議員
Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.
數(shù)以百萬計的工黨支持者沒有議員代表。
She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
她有一個錯覺,以為我知道自己在做什么。
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
你似乎存在相當大的誤解。
I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
我不想反復重申,但還是不得不說。
I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
我還以為這些疼痛意味著我要生了呢。
Some women prefer to move about during labour.
有些女人喜歡在分娩期間下床走動。
The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.
2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CPatrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文Now Fred, you went to university in Canada? A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasing employers' choice.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off)
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文To compensate for the fast-shrinking labour force, Japan would need large numbers of immigrants from overseas
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section BInternational Labour Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis.
2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section BMPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.
2016年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section CBelieving in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.
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出自-2012年考研閱讀原文“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development.
出自-2016年考研閱讀原文"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one
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2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section ⅡAt its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.
2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱfinally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section ⅡIn some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.
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2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
"she was in labor for six hours"
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
"She tugged for years to make a decent living"
"We have to push a little to make the deadline!"
"She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"