labour
labor
 noun
 trabalho
EN The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction,I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.
PT O ruído prolongou-se por alguns minutos, durante os quais, para deleitar-me com ele,interrompi o meu trabalho e sentei-me sobre os ossos.
 Fonte: BAR (157)
labor
EN The essay was for him the chief labour of his week and every Tuesday, as he marched from home to the school, he read his fate in the incidents of the way, pitting himself against some figure ahead of him and quickening his pace to outstrip it before a certain goal was reached or planting his steps scrupulously in the spaces of the patchwork of the pathway and telling himself that he would be first and not first in the weekly essay.
PT O exercício de literatura era para ele o labor máximo da semana, e todas as terças-feiras, no trajecto de casa para a escola, lia o seu fado nos acidentes do caminho, fixava-se em qualquer figura surgida diante dele e apressava o passo para a ultrapassar antes de ter alcançado um determinado ponto; ou então empenhava-se em colocar os pés nos interstícios das lajes do passeio, na dúvida íntima de vir a ser, ou não, o primeiro no exercício semanal.
Fonte: JOV (1663)
intransitive verb
 PAST: laboured. PART: laboured |
trabalhar
EN At last he had understood: and human life lay around him, a plain of peace whereon ant-like men laboured in brotherhood, their dead sleeping under quiet mounds.
PT Afinal ele compreendia enfim: a vida humana ali estava à sua volta, agradável planície na qual homens como formigas trabalhavam e fraternizavam, enquanto os seus mortos dormiam debaixo de quietos cômoros.
Fonte: JOV (2556)
mourejar
EN Below them, boys were still labouring, though some of the small ones had lost interest and were searching this new forest for fruit.
PT A seus pés havia ainda garotos que mourejavam, embora os mais miúdos tivessem perdido interesse e fizessem uma batida a esta nova mata em busca de fruta.
Fonte: MOS (1021)
labutar
EN He liked that men should labour and sweat on the windy beach at night, pitting muscle and brain against the waves and the wind; he liked men to work like that, and women to keep house, and sit beside sleeping children indoors, while men were drowned, out there in a storm.
PT Gostava que os homens tivessem de labutar e de suar na praia ventosa, à noite, exercitando músculos e cérebro contra as ondas e o vento; gostava que os homens trabalhassem assim, que as mulheres ficassem em casa, sentadas portas adentro e junto dos filhos que dormiam, enquanto os homens se afogavam lá fora, na tempestade.
Fonte: RUM (2563)
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