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work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
work more and get more
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
to work hard / to look after
HSK 7-9
hardworking / industrious / diligent
HSK 7-9
contribution / meritorious service / credit
HSK 7-9
to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc) / to comfort
HSK 7-9
fatigue / wearily / weariness / weary
HSK 7-9
tired / exhausted / worn out / to toil
HSK 7-9
labor camp / prison camp with hard labor
to reward with food and drink / to feast (sb) / presents of food etc made to troops / Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4]
to inconvenience / to trouble (sb with a request)
futile endeavor (idiom)
reeducation through labor
lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom) / fig. faithful service
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(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])
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
(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)
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
work / manual labor
Lawrence (person name)
distribution according to work
labor and capital; workers and capitalists
Crawford (town in Texas)
strain (medicine)
model worker
labor / laborer
abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造 / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp)
McDonald's (fast food company)
to work hard without complaint (idiom)
futile
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
to toil / hard work
(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)
Claude (name)
to get sth done once and for all
(idiom) to reap without sowing; to get sth without working for it; to sponge off others
laborious
labor committee / abbr. for 勞動委員會|劳动委员会
to work with one's brains / to rack one's brains / to worry
Republic of Palau (Pacific island nation)
to work hard / to toil
to work to no avail (idiom)
(literary) fatigued / wearied
reward
Rolls-Royce
to serve (in some capacity) / to work for
lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom) / fig. a very slight effort
reeducation through labor
to do sth in place of sb else
war exploits / (fig.) heroic contribution
to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
Lloyd (name) / Lloyd's (London-based insurance group)
to be a tax on (one's mind) / to bother / to trouble / to be concerned
work and rest
hardy / able to resist hardship
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
to work hard while accomplishing little / to toil to no avail
foreign worker (abbr. for 外籍勞工|外籍劳工)
waste of manpower and resources
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
travel-worn
to spare no effort
(dialect) nuisance / pain
to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / vexation / inconvenience
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
exhausted / worn out
travel-worn
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
correctional labor camp
undue trouble / Thank you for having gone out of your way to help me.
(polite) thank you for your trouble (used when asking a favor or after having received one)
overwork
ability to work
laborer from mainland China (Tw)
International Labor Day (May Day)
Tokelau (territory of New Zealand)
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
diligent
(courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey / you will be making a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a faraway place)
labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
disorder of internal organs caused by overexertion
Browne (person name)
to offer condolences / Taiwan pr. [yan4 lao4]
shrike
worker; laborer
to work in vain
labor and employer
variant of 癆瘵|痨瘵
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
deficiency of kidney essence due to sexual excess (TCM)
physical labor
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)

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