| 词汇 | labor |
| 词源 | labor. Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776) was the first person to use the word labor in its modern sense of work done to supply material wants. Before that, the word had the same meaning as its parent, the Latin labor, which means toil, distress, and trouble. |
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