labour

労働、労力

人が行う仕事。特に、体を使うきつい仕事。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： work, toil

よく使う表現： manual labour, hard labour, cost of labour

労働力、労働者

働く人々。特に、体を使う仕事をする人々。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： workers, workforce, manpower

よく使う表現： skilled labour, labour shortage, cheap labour, organised labour

陣痛、分娩

母親の体が収縮して赤ちゃんを外へ押し出す、出産の過程。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： be in labour (She was in labour for six hours.); go into labour (She went into labour during the night.)

類義語： childbirth

よく使う表現： in labour, go into labour, labour pains

労働党

労働者を代表するとする政党。いくつかの国で使われる党名。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： Labour Party

よく使う表現： Labour Party, Labour government, vote Labour

懸命に働く、骨を折る

長い時間や困難の中で、一生懸命に働く。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： labour over something (She laboured over the report all evening.); labour to do something (They laboured to clear the road.)

類義語： work hard, toil, struggle

反対語： rest

よく使う表現： labour all day, labour over something, labour in fields

くどくど述べる、しつこく強調する

相手がもう理解した考えを、何度も説明したり論じたりする。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： belabour, dwell on

よく使う表現： labour the point, labour an argument