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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
to work hard / to look after
HSK 7-9
tired / exhausted / worn out / to toil
HSK 7-9
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
work more and get more
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
to inconvenience / to trouble (sb with a request)
to reward with food and drink / to feast (sb) / presents of food etc made to troops / Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4]
reeducation through labor
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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])
Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand)
to accumulate work causes sickness (idiom); to fall ill from constant overwork
work / manual labor
Lawrence (person name)
labor and capital; workers and capitalists
strain (medicine)
model worker
Claude (name)
Claus or Klaus (name)
labor / laborer
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
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
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
to toil / hard work
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
lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom) / fig. a very slight effort
to work with one's brains / to rack one's brains / to worry
Republic of Palau or Belau (Pacific island nation)
to work hard / to toil
to work to no avail (idiom)
(literary) fatigued / wearied
reward
Rolls-Royce
Strauss (name) / Johann Strauss (1825-1899), Austrian composer / Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer
to serve (in some capacity) / to work for
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
toil / hard work
hardy / able to resist hardship
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
excuse me
(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)
to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / vexation / inconvenience
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom) / (usually of a couple) to part from each other
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom) / fig. faithful service
exhausted / worn out
futile endeavor (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)
travel-worn
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
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
laborer from mainland China (Tw)
Tokelau (territory of New Zealand)
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
to offer condolences / Taiwan pr. [yan4 lao4]
Crawford (town in Texas)
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)
St Lawrence River, Canada
foreign worker
labor insurance
mental labor / intellectual work
to get rich through hard work

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