Labor

(noun.) productive work (especially physical work done for wages); 'his labor did not require a great deal of skill'.

(noun.) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; 'there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field'.

(verb.) undergo the efforts of childbirth.

(verb.) work hard; 'She was digging away at her math homework'; 'Lexicographers drudge all day long'.

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• It is a scientific labor. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I know that no end of phrases could be adduced to show the inclusiveness of the word labor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If it were as you say, what could be sadder than so much ardent labor all in vain? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This labor movement has a destructive and constructive energy within it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is, too, an ideal for labor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That a certain amount of labor must be engaged in goes without saying. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They are all labor-saving machines themselves, every one of 'em. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And had she not wished to marry him that she might help him in his life's labor? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This labor would support but a very limited percentage of them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Labor in loneliness is irksome. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The descent of the mountain was a labor of only four minutes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It's only the first labor, which is almost always protracted. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Such is the condition of our laws and practice that the patentee in seeking to enforce his rights labors under a terrible handicap. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Thou hast done nobly, my son, said he, and thy labors will serve the interests of our Mother Church. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Miss Ophelia still persevered in her labors in the housekeeping line. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• All the men who could be employed, were kept at work from early dawn until darkness closed the labors of the day. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At one time the Astronomer Royal had felt very skeptical about the possibility of the discovery which his own labors had contributed to advance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Imagination labors best in distant fields. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In the sentence I quote the Commissioners had an idea which might have animated all their labors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Then Jehu, the good missionary, rested from his labors once more. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• When I had entered he was sweeping the shop, and he had sweetened his labors by sweeping over me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Cuvier said, Davy, not yet thirty-two, in the opinion of all who could judge of such labors, held the first rank among the chemists of this or of any other age. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• After these tiresome labors, she must do her lessons, which was a daily trial of every virtue she possessed. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I leave you to your military labors. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A couple of hours at Day's Music Hall in the evening would do you no harm after your labors. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• These labors are not done in a day. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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