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 la·bor /ˈlebɚ/
 勞動,努力,工作,勞工,分娩(vi.)勞動,努力,苦幹(vt.)詳細分析,麻煩

 la·bor /ˈlebɚ/ 名詞

 labor
 人工

 La·bor n.  [Written also labour.]
 1. 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.
 God hath set
 Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
 Successive.   --Milton.
 2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
 3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
    Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.   --Hooker.
 4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
 The queen's in labor,
 They say, in great extremity; and feared
 She'll with the labor end.   --Shak.
 5. Any pang or distress.
 6. Naut. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
 7.  A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177¹/₇ acres.
 8. Mining.  A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
 Syn: -- Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See Toll.

 La·bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.]  [Written also labour.]
 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
 Adam, well may we labor still to dress
 This garden.   --Milton.
 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
 3. 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.
    The stone that labors up the hill.   --Granville.
    The line too labors, and the words move slow.   --Pope.
    To cure the disorder under which he labored.   --Sir W. Scott.
    Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.   --Matt. xi. 28
 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
 5. Naut. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

 La·bor, v. t.
 1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
    The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children.   --W. Tooke.
 2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. “To labor arms for Troy.”
 3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
 4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.]
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 labor
      n 1: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
           "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
           labour, toil]
      2: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
         for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
         field" [syn: labour, working class, proletariat]
      3: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
         the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
         [syn: parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in,
         travail, childbed]
      4: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by
         united action especially via labor unions (especially the
         leaders of this movement) [syn: labor movement, trade
         union movement]
      5: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
         characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
         the socialization of key industries [syn: Labour Party,
         Labour, Labor Party]
      6: the federal department responsible for promoting the working
         conditions of wage earners in the United States; created
         in 1913 [syn: Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL]
      7: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he
         prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking, project,
          task]
      v 1: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "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" [syn: tug, labour, push, drive]
      2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
         "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labour, toil,
          fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
      3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labour]