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劳
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Definitions
- 1. to toil
- 2. labor
- 3. laborer
- 4. to put sb to trouble (of doing sth)
- 5. meritorious deed
- 6. to console (Taiwan pr. [lào] for this sense)
Example Sentences
1 shown能者多 劳 。
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Words Containing 劳
to work hard while accomplishing little
to work hard
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
repetitive strain injury (RSI)
model worker
reeducation through labor
Trud (Russian newspaper)
labor exchanges
laborious
forced labor
to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc)
(polite) thank you for your trouble (used when asking a favor or after having received one)
correctional institution
Browne (person name)
waste of manpower and resources
labor (as opposed to capital or management)
to be completely drained both emotionally and physically (idiom)
May Day
Rolls-Royce
to put sb to trouble (of doing sth)
to work to no avail (idiom)
foreign worker
lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom)
(bird species of China) Chinese grey shrike (Lanius sphenocercus)
diligent and able to endure hardship (idiom)
strain (medicine)
the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom)
to render one's humble services
to inconvenience
(dialect) nuisance
work
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering
International Labor Day (May Day)
service contract
to pay sb according to their productivity
worker; laborer
industrial relations
to reap without sowing (idiom)
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
labor and employer
productive labor
(bird species of China) tiger shrike (Lanius tigrinus)
labor committee
(bird species of China) Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides)
metal fatigue
fatigue
fatigue
lorazepam
contract workers (sent abroad)
to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy
to work in vain
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
Claus or Klaus (name)
lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom)
futile endeavor (idiom)
Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer
distribution according to work
Republic of Palau or Belau (Pacific island nation)
to work hard
(bird species of China) great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor)
work
contribution
(literary) fatigued
labor insurance
to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
travel-worn
it's the most capable people who do the most work (idiom) (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)
deficiency of kidney essence due to sexual excess (TCM)
to get sth done once and for all
mental labor
reform through labor
Lawrence (person name)
(courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey
correctional labor camp
exhausted
war exploits
(bird species of China) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
(bird species of China) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea
model worker
MacDonald or McDonald (name)
undue trouble
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
labor market
to work with one's brains
shrike
toil
excuse me
(bird species of China) red-tailed shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)
Crawford (town in Texas)
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
reeducation through labor
working people
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
Tokelau (territory of New Zealand)
physical labor
to toil
service (work done for money)
foreign worker
a good dog deserves a bone (idiom)
to serve (in some capacity)
hardworking
(bird species of China) red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)
International Labor Organization
worker
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
futile
eye strain
labor
hardy
tired
St Lawrence River, Canada
Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea
labor camp
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to reward with food and drink
to work hard without complaint (idiom)
ability to work
reward
reeducation through labor
diligent
(bird species of China) steppe grey shrike (Lanius pallidirostris)
labor
to tax one's mind and body
overwork
to become rich by one's own efforts
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
(bird species of China) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
Strauss (name)
labor contract
Lloyd (name)
(bird species of China) lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor)
Poverty is a stranger to industry. (idiom)
to spare no effort
overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
labor force
to do sth in place of sb else
work more and get more
Claude (name)
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician
work and rest
to rack one's brains
one able to do light manual labor only
travel-worn
shrike (family Laniidae)
labor and capital
Ronald McDonald
disorder of internal organs caused by overexertion
to offer condolences
to be a tax on (one's mind)
no pain, no gain (idiom)
relations between labor and employer