That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasing employers' choice.
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In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off)
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.
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（辛苦的）勞動(dòng)，勞作；（通常指）體力勞動(dòng)
Labour is very hard work, usually physical work.
例句
...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...
播種、種植和收割的辛勤勞作
The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.
正在燒烤臺(tái)上忙活的廚師抬起頭來(lái)；他的臉上直冒汗。
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VERB
（用手）勞動(dòng)
Someone who labours works hard using their hands.
例句
...peasants labouring in the fields...
在地里勞作的農(nóng)民
Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
她丈夫在廠里辛勤工作了17年。
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VERB
艱苦地做；吃力地做
If you labour to do something, you do it with difficulty.
例句
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
他嘔心瀝血地建立一個(gè)宗教社區(qū)，至今已有25個(gè)年頭。
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
在其他各種困難下艱苦工作的小伙子
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（總稱）勞工，工人
Labour is used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group.
例句
Latin America lacked skilled labour...
拉丁美洲缺乏熟練工人。
...the struggle between capital and labour...
勞資斗爭(zhēng)
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勞動(dòng)成果
The work done by a group of workers or by a particular worker is referred to as their labour .
例句
Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour...
每個(gè)人的勞動(dòng)成果都應(yīng)該獲得合理的回報(bào)。
The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour — they have no power.
失業(yè)者沒法罷工——他們沒有這種實(shí)力。
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（英國(guó)）工黨
In Britain, people use Labour to refer to the Labour Party.
例句
He believes that, historically, Labour has been most successful as the party that helped people get on in life...
他相信一直以來(lái)工黨在幫助人民改善生活方面表現(xiàn)最為出色。
They all vote Labour.
他們都投工黨的票。
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ADJ
工黨的；支持工黨的
A Labour politician or voter is a member of a Labour Party or votes for a Labour Party.
例句
...a Labour MP...
工黨下院議員
Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.
數(shù)以百萬(wàn)計(jì)的工黨支持者沒有議員代表。
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VERB
誤以為；為…所蒙蔽
If you labour under a delusion or misapprehension, you continue to believe something which is not true.
例句
She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
她有一個(gè)錯(cuò)覺，以為我知道自己在做什么。
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
你似乎存在相當(dāng)大的誤解。
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VERB
一再重申；反復(fù)說(shuō)明
If you labour a point or an argument, you keep making the same point or saying the same thing, although it is unnecessary.
例句
I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
我不想反復(fù)重申，但還是不得不說(shuō)。
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分娩；臨盆
Labour is the last stage of pregnancy, in which the baby is gradually pushed out of the womb by the mother.
例句
I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
我還以為這些疼痛意味著我要生了呢。
Some women prefer to move about during labour.
有些女人喜歡在分娩期間下床走動(dòng)。