labour

trabajo, labor

Trabajo que hacen las personas, especialmente el que exige gran esfuerzo físico.

En inglés sencillo: Work people do, especially hard physical work.

• The job involves heavy labour.
• We paid separately for materials and labour.
• Years of manual labour had damaged his back.

Sinónimos: work, toil

Expresiones frecuentes: manual labour, hard labour, cost of labour

mano de obra, trabajadores

Las personas que trabajan, especialmente en empleos que requieren esfuerzo físico.

En inglés sencillo: The people who work, especially those doing physical jobs.

• The farm needs more labour.
• Builders face a shortage of skilled labour.
• The company hired extra labour for the summer.

Sinónimos: workers, workforce, manpower

Expresiones frecuentes: skilled labour, labour shortage, cheap labour, organised labour

parto, trabajo de parto

Proceso en el que las contracciones del cuerpo de la madre ayudan a expulsar al bebé.

En inglés sencillo: The process of giving birth, when the mother's body pushes the baby out.

• Her labour began at midnight.
• She went into labour a week early.
• The midwife stayed with her throughout labour.

Cómo se usa: be in labour (She was in labour for six hours.); go into labour (She went into labour during the night.)

Sinónimos: childbirth

Expresiones frecuentes: in labour, go into labour, labour pains

Partido Laborista

Nombre de un partido político que afirma representar a los trabajadores, usado en varios países.

En inglés sencillo: A political party that says it represents workers, used as a party name in several countries.

• Labour won the election.
• She voted Labour for the first time.
• The Labour leader spoke about housing costs.

Sinónimos: Labour Party

Expresiones frecuentes: Labour Party, Labour government, vote Labour

trabajar duro, afanarse

Trabajar con mucho esfuerzo, a menudo durante largo tiempo o con dificultades.

En inglés sencillo: To work very hard, often for a long time or with difficulty.

• They labour in the fields all day.
• He laboured over dinner for hours.
• We laboured to finish the repairs before dark.

Cómo se usa: labour over something (She laboured over the report all evening.); labour to do something (They laboured to clear the road.)

Sinónimos: work hard, toil, struggle

Antónimos: rest

Expresiones frecuentes: labour all day, labour over something, labour in fields

insistir demasiado, machacar

Seguir explicando o comentando una idea cuando los demás ya la han entendido.

En inglés sencillo: To keep explaining or discussing an idea after people already understand it.

• Please don't labour the point.
• He laboured his argument until everyone lost interest.
• There's no need to labour this point further.

Sinónimos: belabour, dwell on

Expresiones frecuentes: labour the point, labour an argument