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I . labour, labor Am [ˈleıbə] N

II . labour, labor Am [ˈleıbə] VB intr

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III . labour, labor Am [ˈleıbə] VB trans

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labour agreement, labor agreement Am N

labour contract, labor contract Am N

labour exchange, labor exchange Am N

labour force, labor force Am N

labour-intensive, labor-intensive Am ADJ

Usage examples with laboured

The tractor laboured up the hillside.
拖拉机艰难地向山坡上爬去。

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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His one ambition in life was the reformation and reclamation of prisoners, and to this end he incessantly laboured.
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Their breathing begins to be laboured and within a short period of time the rats suffer from series of convulsive movements.
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But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.
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The creepy-crawly symbolism is also far too laboured.
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But the point that waitressing is physically gruelling was itself laboured, especially during a montage sequence in which she almost caused multiple spillages and miscounted a bill.
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He neither required nor bestirred himself to sit through any awkward and heavily self-edited tributes from party leaders who had laboured mightily, for years, to get him gone.
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The positions in which an Inuk woman laboured varied according to the midwife's preferences and her own comfort.
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What follows is a long and laboured case of coitus interruptus, where the laughs are as hollow as the premise.
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While your critique of the game overall appeared to be balanced, the carping on about the fighting style was somewhat laboured.
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The dialogue abounds in lines that arouse an involuntary chuckle or laugh; the situations, if occasionally laboured, are ingenious and hilarious.
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