劳作 (勞作)
láo zuò
Pinyin

Definition

劳作 (勞作)
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láo zuò
  1. work
  2. manual labor

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

作
zuō
  1. 1 worker
  2. 2 workshop
  3. 3 (slang) troublesome
  4. 4 high-maintenance (person)
作品
zuò pǐn
  1. 1 work (of art)
  2. 2 opus
  3. 3 classifier: 部 bù
  4. 4 classifier: 篇 piān
作业
zuò yè
  1. 1 school assignment
  2. 2 homework
  3. 3 work
  4. 4 task
  5. 5 operation
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 to operate
作为
zuò wéi
  1. 1 one's conduct
  2. 2 deed
  3. 3 activity
  4. 4 accomplishment
  5. 5 achievement
  6. 6 to act as
  7. 7 as (in the capacity of)
  8. 8 qua
  9. 9 to view as
  10. 10 to look upon (sth as)
  11. 11 to take sth to be
作用
zuò yòng
  1. 1 to act on
  2. 2 to affect
  3. 3 action
  4. 4 function
  5. 5 activity
  6. 6 impact
  7. 7 result
  8. 8 effect
  9. 9 purpose
  10. 10 intent
  11. 11 to play a role
  12. 12 corresponds to English -ity, -ism, -ization
  13. 13 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

以身作则
yǐ shēn zuò zé
  1. 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
作威作福
zuò wēi zuò fú
  1. 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
作茧自缚
zuò jiǎn zì fù
  1. 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
  2. 2 hoist by his own petard
作鸟兽散
zuò niǎo shòu sàn
  1. 1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to head off in various directions
  3. 3 to flee helter-skelter
俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard

Sample Sentences

历史之父”希罗多德说是百万奴隶辛勤劳作30年的结果，大概跟我们修长城一样。金字塔还有很多神秘之处，什么地球和太阳的距离啊，建造的位置和角度啊，古埃及的建筑水平，真是不可思议！
lìshǐzhīfù ”Xīluóduōdé shuō shì bǎiwàn núlì xīnqín láozuò sānshí nián de jiéguǒ ，dàgài gēn wǒmen xiū chángchéng yíyàng 。jīnzìtǎ hái yǒu hěn duō shénmì zhīchù ，shénme dìqiú hé tàiyáng de jùlí a ，jiànzào de wèizhi hé jiǎodù a ，gǔ Āijí de jiànzhù shuǐpíng ，zhēnshì bùkěsīyì ！
Herodotus, ''the Father of History," says that it was the back-breaking work of a million slaves over a span of thirty years. That's about the same as our construction of the Great Wall of China.
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不错，想要身心健康，就得顺应天地自然的规律，“饮食有节，起居有常，不妄劳作”。尽量做到“和于阴阳，调于四时”。
bùcuò ，xiǎngyào shēnxīn jiànkāng ，jiù děi shùnyìng tiāndì zìrán de guīlǜ ，“yǐnshí yǒu jié ，qǐjū yǒu cháng ，bùwàngláozuò ”。jǐnliàng zuò dào “héyú yīnyáng ，tiáo yú sìshí ”。
Good. If you want to look after your physical and mental health, you need to respect natural laws encaptured in the phrase, "food and drink should change in line with the changing seasons, life should follow a natural rhythm, and you should behave in an upright way." As much as possible get in sync with yin and yang, and adjust to the four seasons.
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