labourの意味・使い方・発音

labour

英 ['leɪbə] 美

labour: labour: [13] Labour comes via Old French labour from Latin labor. This has been linked with the verb labāre ‘slip’, and if the two were related it would mean that the underlying etymological meaning of labour was something like ‘stumble under a burden’. Most of the modern European descendants of Latin labor have progressed from the broad sense ‘work, exertion’ to more specialized meanings – French labourer denotes ‘plough’, for instance, and Spanish labrar ‘plough, carve, embroider’, etc. English has retained it as a formal alternative to work, although the additional obstetric sense developed in the 16th century.
labour: chiefly British English spelling of labor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or. As short for "the British Labour Party" it is from 1906.

1. It was the uncommitted that Labour needed to reach.: 労働党が引き込む必要があるのは、態度を表明していない者だ。

2.He 's been a keen supporter of the Labour Party all his life.: 彼は一生労働党の熱烈な支持者だった。

3.The Independent Labour Party was founded in Bradford on January 13，1893.: 独立労働党は1893年1月13日にブラッドフォードで設立された。

4.The Labour government has to date resisted all supplications.: これまで労働党政府はすべての請願を拒否してきた。