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work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
fatigue / wearily / weariness / weary
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
contribution / meritorious service / credit
HSK 7-9
hardworking / industrious / diligent
HSK 7-9
tired / exhausted / worn out / to toil
HSK 7-9
to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc) / to comfort
HSK 7-9
to work hard / to look after
HSK 7-9
work more and get more
HSK 7-9
laborious
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
reeducation through labor
labor / laborer
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  *勞* | 勞* | *勞
(bound form) to toil; labor / (bound form) laborer / (bound form) meritorious deed / (bound form) fatigue / to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth) / to express one's appreciation (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom) / fig. faithful service
to work with one's brains / to rack one's brains / to worry
McDonald's (fast food company)
(Tw) arts and crafts (as a school subject)
reward
correctional labor camp
futile
to work hard without complaint (idiom)
work / manual labor
to inconvenience / to trouble (sb with a request)
International Labor Day (May Day)
to do sth in place of sb else
Rolls-Royce
physical labor
to work to no avail (idiom)
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom) / fig. a very slight effort
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
Claus or Klaus (name)
travel-worn
(idiom) to reap without sowing; to get sth without working for it; to sponge off others
Claude (name)
Lawrence (person name)
(dialect) nuisance / pain
(literary) fatigued / wearied
to reward with food and drink / to feast (sb) / presents of food etc made to troops / Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4]
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
Lloyd (name) / Lloyd's (London-based insurance group)
to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
to work hard / to toil
reeducation through labor
strain (medicine)
to be a tax on (one's mind) / to bother / to trouble / to be concerned
to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
hardy / able to resist hardship
reeducation through labor / laogai (prison camp)
(Tw) Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
to spare no effort
to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / vexation / inconvenience
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
Browne (person name)
worker; laborer
work and rest
distribution according to work
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏, and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)
correctional institution / labor camp
excuse me
abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造 / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp)
International Labor Organization
to get sth done once and for all
to work hard while accomplishing little / to toil to no avail
metal fatigue
exhausted / worn out
waste of manpower and resources
labor market
mental labor / intellectual work
model worker
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
shrike (family Laniidae)
(polite) thank you for your trouble (used when asking a favor or after having received one)
Crawford (town in Texas)
model worker
war exploits / (fig.) heroic contribution
to serve (in some capacity) / to work for
labor insurance
travel-worn
labor committee / abbr. for 勞動委員會|劳动委员会
diligent
undue trouble / Thank you for having gone out of your way to help me.
the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom) / (usually of a couple) to part from each other
shrike
(idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)
disorder of internal organs caused by overexertion
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician
one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
toil / hard work
to be completely drained both emotionally and physically (idiom)
to offer condolences / Taiwan pr. [yan4 lao4]
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)

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