work/job/labour/toil.导航词义：工作，劳动

1. work:n. 工作，劳动.最普通用词，含义广泛，既可指体力劳动也可指脑力劳动，通常都以挣钱为目的，有时也指机器干的工作。

We have more work than we can deal with.

我们的工作多得做不完。

Work can bring you pleasure.

工作能给人带来快乐。

He started work when he was just 15.

他15岁就开始工作了。

Only those who love their work can enjoy the delight in work.

只有热爱工作的人才能享受到工作中的乐趣。

2. job:n. 工作，活儿.多用于口语，侧重指受雇用的、以谋生为目的的工作。

Peter does odd jobs for his neighbours.

彼得给邻居们打零工。

Sorting these reports out is going to be a hard job.

整理这些报告是件很辛苦的事。

Her daughter has a job in a bank.

她女儿在银行里有份工作。

The job requires much hard labour.

这项工作要付出很多艰苦的劳动。

3. labour:n. 劳动，工作.尤指艰苦的体力劳动。

All wealth comes ultimately from human labour.

一切财富归根到底来源于人类的劳动。

There is a clear division of labour in ants.

蚂蚁间有明确的分工。

In return for his labour, he receives food and shelter.

他以他辛苦的劳动换取食物和栖身之所。

4. toil:n. 苦工，辛苦.指十分累人的苦活。

A life of toil is generally the price of fame and success.

劳苦的一生通常是声望和成功的代价。

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

我无可奉献，除了鲜血、辛劳、泪水和汗水。

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1·Labour is ahead in the poll.

工党的得票数领先。《牛津词典》

2·She belongs to the Labour Party.

她是工党党员。《牛津词典》

3·Labour swept to victory in 2001.

工党在2001年轻松取胜。《牛津词典》

4·Jane was in labour for ten hours.

简分娩花了十个小时。《牛津词典》

5·Voting showed a 10% swing to Labour.

投票显示10%的人转而支持工党。《牛津词典》

6·He's on the right of the Labour Party.

他是工党内的右派成员。《牛津词典》

7·The bill was sponsored by a Labour MP.

这项议案是一位工党议员提交的。《牛津词典》

8·The company wants to keep down labour costs.

公司想保持低劳动成本。《牛津词典》

9·There is an abundant supply of cheap labour.

有丰富的廉价劳动力供应。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·He became a colossus of the labour movement.

他成了劳工运动中的一位巨人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

劳动

1·The company wants to keep down labour costs.

公司想保持低劳动成本。《牛津词典》

2·A system of forced labour was used on the cocoa plantations.

一种受迫劳动制曾用于可可种植园。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·To attract investors, Panama has adjusted its tax and labour laws.

为了吸引投资者，巴拿马已经调整了其税务及劳动法规。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The team has really worked hard and Mansell is enjoying the fruits of that labour.

那个团队真地已很努力，而曼塞尔正在享受这一劳动的成果。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·We observe a striking shift away from a labour theory among all mainline economists.

我们发现在所有主流经济学家中出现了一种背离劳动理论的惊人变化。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

劳动力

1·There is an abundant supply of cheap labour.

有丰富的廉价劳动力供应。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Employers are using immigrants as cheap labour.

雇主正在把移民当作廉价劳动力使用。《牛津词典》

3·The use of cheap labour helped to keep costs down.

使用廉价劳动力有助于降低成本。《牛津词典》

4·A million young people enter the labour market each year.

100万年轻人每年进入劳动力市场。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Employers want cheap labour and consumers want cheap houses.

雇主需要廉价的劳动力，消费者需要便宜的房子。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

劳工

1·He became a colossus of the labour movement.

他成了劳工运动中的一位巨人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The mines were manned by forced labour from conquered countries.

这些矿由来自被征服国家的强制劳工开采。《牛津词典》

3·The minister of labour will be holding an imbizo with farmers in the area.

劳工部长将与这一地区的农民举行对话会。《牛津词典》

4·The government revoked her husband's licence to operate migrant labour crews.

政府撤销了她丈夫经营流动劳工团队的许可证。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Firms are using the programme as a backdoor way to replace domestic employees with cheaper labour.

公司正采取不正当的策略，用廉价劳工来取代本土员工。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

劳力

1·This technical innovation will save us much time and labour.

这项技术革新可以为我们节省大量的时间和劳力。《新英汉大辞典》

2·But critics object that the ferry, which can hold more than 800 people, may interfere with whales and other wildlife, and worry about the added traffic, fishermen and cheap Labour it will bring.

但反对意见则坚持这艘载客量超过800人的客轮可能干扰鲸鱼及其他海洋生物，同时也担心因它而来的交通量、渔民和廉价劳力。

3·The secretive electronics giant is renowned for taking designs from Western firms, such as Apple, and using cheap Labour to crank them out in huge quantities.

这个隐秘的电子巨头以从苹果等西方公司获得设计图，然后使用廉价劳力制造出海量产品的经营模式闻名于世。

4·But to produce a dollar of revenue, companies spend about 40 cents on acquiring non Labour intermediate inputs, primarily from the domestic sector.

但每产生一元的收入，公司要在非劳力的中间投入上花费40分，主要来自民用部门。

5·Crops still in the field will only be partially harvested due to abandonment and lack of Labour.

由于弃收和缺少劳力，仍在地里的作物只会部分得到收获。

分娩

1·You don't have to call the midwife as soon as labour starts.

你不必刚开始分娩就叫助产士。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The development of obstetric fistula is directly linked to one of the major causes of maternal mortality: obstructed labour.

产科瘘的形成与孕产妇死亡的主要原因之一：梗阻性分娩直接有关。

3·Most mothers and midwives would agree that when a woman is in Labour, it is unlikely that she will be in any state to give informed consent, or to cope emotionally with a positive result.

大多数母亲和助产士都会同意，当一个女人在分娩时，不可能给予知情同意，也不可能在检测结果阳性的情况下完全控制自己的情绪。

4·Patients should be told that Labour pain is a timeless component of the rites of passage transition to motherhood, he added.

他补充到，病人应该被告知分娩的痛苦是成为妈妈的“过程”里一个永恒的部分。

5·However, although rapid testing during Labour can ensure HIV positive pregnant women receive treatment quickly, there are questions over how ethical it is.

然而，分娩期间的快速测试虽然可以确保HIV病毒阳性的孕妇能尽快接受治疗，但也有人对这种做法的道德性提出了质疑。

人工

1·It did not refer to labour costs or discuss how many robots would be involved.

声明没有提到人工成本或者讨论这个计划涉及多少机器人。

2·For many products, labour is a small and diminishing fraction of total costs.

对于很多产品来说，人工费用占总成本的比例越来越小。

3·But firms, especially small ones, should be allowed to opt out of such arrangements so that they can better match Labour costs to productivity.

但是应该允许公司、特别是小型的，不受这种规定的约束，以便他们能更好地来让人工成本和生产力相匹配。

4·Up north in the tar sands, many projects are being postponed, as the credit crunch adds to the woes caused by low oil prices and high Labour and material costs.

在北方的油砂地区，由于信用危机使得低油价和高人工以及材料成本造成的困境更加恶化，许多项目正在往后推移。

5·Two decades ago Germany's unit Labour costs, for instance, were some 12% above the euro-zone average, earning it the epithet of the sick man of Europe.

举例来说，过去的二十年里，德国的单位人工成本比欧元区平均水平高出12%，也因此得到了“欧洲病夫”的绰号。

工

1·Employers have the upper hand and can keep down labour costs, but at a price to Thailand’s competitiveness.

雇主掌握权力，也能够用低廉的成本雇用移工，但却要牺牲泰国的竞争力。

2·For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and Labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

因为神并非不公义，竟忘记你们所作的工，和你们为他名所显的爱心，就是先前伺候圣徒，如今还是伺候。

3·Chuanjiang haozi ('labour songs') is a form of folk singing, led by a labor singer and accompanied by boatmen, in order to unify action and rhythm.

川江号子是川江船工们为统一动作和节奏，由号工领唱，众船工帮腔、合唱的一种一领众和式的民间歌唱形式。

4·Because Labour causes damage retired worker whether allowance of plan hair difficulty?

因工致残退休职工是否计发困难补贴？

5·Machine sewing excels hand sewing Because the former saves Both laBour and money.

机器缝纫比手工缝纫强，既省工，又省钱。

劳作

1·He had been content with daily Labour and rough animal enjoyments, till Catherine crossed his path.

他原是满足于日常劳作与粗野的牲口一样的享受的，直到凯瑟琳来到他的生活道路上才改变。

2·It has been a Labour of our love for mankind, and a service in the name of the Creator.

这一直是一个我们对人类的爱的劳作，一个以造物主之名的服务。

3·These things are so, because men have ceased to live by their own Labour, and have taken to depending on the Labour of others.

事情是这样的，由于人们不再依靠自己的劳作去生活，习惯于依赖他人的劳动而过活。

4·The questions cover three main areas: economic, environmental and social sustainability, with topics ranging from fertilizer use, crop protection, and waste management to Labour conditions.

这个问题主要涉及三个方面：经济可持续性、环境可持续性及社会可持续性，包括肥料施用、作物保护、废物处理及劳作条件等内容。

5·Obviously, society has asked writers, as a group, to take time out from normal Labour to do this special listening and transcribing, and each writer has been assigned a certain part of the spectrum.

很显然，社会要求“作家”这一群体从日常劳作中脱离出来，从事这项特殊的倾听和转录工作。

(1)labour forcen. 劳动力

(1)surplus labour【政治经济学】剩余劳动(力)

(1)labour party劳工党

(1)division of labour分工

(1)labour unionn. [美]工会

(1)labour productivity劳动生产率