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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Labor \La"bor\, n. [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F.
   labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to
   get, seize.] [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. --Shak.

   6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
      in the straining of timbers and rigging.

   7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
      an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.

   Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
        painstaking. See {Toll}.

Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
   {Labor}, n.] [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.

   5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
      sea. -- Totten.

资料来源 : WordNet®

labour
     v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
          "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {toil},
           {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
     2: 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}, {labor}, {push}, {drive}]
     3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: {labor}]

labour
     n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
          for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
          field" [syn: {labor}, {working class}, {proletariat}]
     2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
        the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
        [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail},
         {childbed}]
     3: 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},
        {Labor Party}, {Labor}]
     4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
        "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn: {labor},
         {toil}]