Labour

n. toil or exertion esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.—v.i. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: (naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.—adj. Labō′rious full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.—adv. Labō′riously.—n. Labō′riousness.—adj. Lā′boured bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.—ns. Lā′bourer one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill; Lā′bourist one who contends for the interests of workmen.—adjs. Lā′bour-sav′ing intended to supersede or lessen the labour of men; Lā′boursome (Shak.) made with labour and diligence.—Labour Day a legal holiday in some parts of the United States as in New York (the first Monday in September); Labour market the supply of unemployed labour in relation to the demand for it; Labour of love work undertaken merely as an act of friendliness and without hope of emolument; Labour with to take pains to convince.—Hard labour compulsory work imposed on certain criminals in addition to imprisonment.

编辑:马丁

• Great was the labour; priceless the reward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Might not that woman, by her labour, have made the reparation ordained by God in paying fourfold? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only; the soldier to expect it from his pay. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I wish continued success to the labours of the Royal Society, and that you may long adorn their chair; being, with the highest esteem, dear sir, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It has been said that electrical science began with the labours of Dr. Gilbert, published in 1600. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Felix and Agatha spent more time in amusement and conversation, and were assisted in their labours by servants. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Because, whoever did, the labouring people did not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If the labouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If she had been born a Queen Bee, and they labouring Bees, they could not have been more satisfied of that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He laboured faithfully in the parish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: What is this? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This was load enough to crush him, and he laboured under it day and night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You laboured to win her round; I did nothing. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• This however did not prevent my writing a laboured letter, which had cost me three copies, to try to melt Colonel Quintin's heart in his favour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

整理:利亚