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labor

🇺🇸 /lˈeɪbɚ/

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labor 既可作专名，指澳大利亚工党、英国工党名称的拼写误用或一个法语姓氏，也可作动词，是美国英语中 labour 的标准拼写。

💡 记忆钩子

把 labor 想成一块写着这个拼法的牌子：放在澳大利亚政治场景里，它指澳大利亚工党；放在美国英语的动作句里，它表示“辛苦劳动”，只是英国英语通常写作 labour。作为姓氏时则是另一条独立的专名分支。

📝 学习建议

建议先记住动词义和澳大利亚工党这一专名义，再补充英国工党名称中的拼写问题和姓氏义。
不要把所有出现的 labor 都理解成“劳动”：首字母大写时可能是政党名或姓氏；英国英语政治语境中的标准拼法通常是 Labour。

📖 中文释义

name

core 澳大利亚工党

📖 在澳大利亚政治语境中，Labor 是澳大利亚工党的名称，指一个政党，而不是泛指劳动。

💡 常见句型是“Labor + 谓语”或“the Labor Party + 谓语”。它属于政治专名，通常首字母大写；在澳大利亚英语报道中可直接用 Labor 指该党。不要把它和普通名词“劳动”混为一谈。

Australian informal

Labor won the election after a closely fought campaign.

澳大利亚工党在一场势均力敌的竞选后赢得了选举。

Many voters in the region support Labor.

这个地区的许多选民支持澳大利亚工党。
common 英国工党名称的误拼

📖 在指英国工党时，labor 是 Labour 的误拼或非标准写法；这个拼法有时受澳大利亚或美国英语影响而出现。

💡 说英国工党时，正式写法应使用 Labour，尤其是在正式文章、新闻和政治文件中。若看到 Labor 指英国政党，通常应把它理解为拼写错误或不规范变体。不要因为澳大利亚工党写作 Labor，就把英国工党的拼法也改成 Labor。

UK US alt-of misspelling

The article mistakenly referred to the UK party as Labor.

这篇文章误把英国工党的名称写成了 Labor。

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rare 法语姓氏

📖 Labor 也可以是一个法语姓氏；这种用法与政党名称和“劳动”的动词义是独立的专名用法。

Labors plural

verb

core 辛苦劳动；费力做某事

📖 作为动词，labor 表示持续而辛苦地工作，或费力完成某件事；它是美国英语中 labour 的标准拼写。

💡 常用“labor to do something”表示“辛苦地设法做某事”，也可用“labor through something”表示费力熬过或完成某事。这个词比普通的“工作”更强调艰苦、缓慢或需要很大力气。美国英语写 labor，英国英语通常写 labour；过去式和过去分词写作 labored。

US alt-of standard

The team labored through the night to finish the report.

团队辛苦工作了一整夜，才完成了报告。

She labored to explain the difficult idea clearly.

她费了很大力气，努力把这个难懂的想法解释清楚。

labors present,singular,third-person laboring participle,present labored participle,past labored past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 10 组

undergo the efforts of childbirth

同义词集: labor labour

上位: undergo

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

同义词集: labor labour toil

his labor did not require a great deal of skill

上位: work 下位: donkeywork, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, exertion, grind, hunt, hunting, plodding, slavery, sweat, travail

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

同义词集: undertaking project task labor

he prepared for great undertakings

上位: work 下位: adventure, assignment, baby, breeze, child's play, cinch, dangerous undertaking, duck soup, endeavor, endeavour, endurance contest, enterprise, escapade, marathon, no-brainer, picnic, piece of cake, proposition, pushover, risky venture, snap, venture, walkover

strive and make an effort to reach a goal; ;

同义词集: tug labor labour push drive

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

上位: fight, struggle 下位: reach, strain, strive

work hard;

同义词集: labor labour toil fag travail grind drudge dig moil

She was digging away at her math homework

Lexicographers drudge all day long

上位: do work, work

the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

同义词集: department of labor labor department labor dol

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

同义词集: labor labour working class proletariat

there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field

上位: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

同义词集: british labour party labour party labour labor

an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

同义词集: labor movement trade union movement labor

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

同义词集: parturiency labor labour confinement lying-in travail childbed

she was in labor for six hours

上位: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition

🌳 词源

作为姓氏时，是法语姓氏 Labarre 的变体；其他义项的词源资料未提供。

Variant of Labarre.

🔄 变式

labored past laboring present Labors plural

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