work: may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force, or it may apply to effort expended or to the product of such effort: too tired to do any ~.
labor: applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous, onerous and fatiguing exertion: believes the farmers are poorly paid for their ~. （exertion费力implies laborious and exhausting effort，如a job not requiring much physical exertion一份不费体力的工作）
travail: is a somewhat bookish term for labor involving pain or suffering: years of ~ were lost when the building burned.
toil: implies prolonged and fatiguing labor: his lot would be years of back-breaking ~. Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" Speech, 丘吉尔演讲：《鲜血辛劳泪水汗水》
drudgery: suggests dull and irksome labor: a job with a good deal of ~. (irk使难以忍受不耐烦implies difficulty in enduring and impatience,如his chronic tardiness irks his colleagues他总是做事缓慢让同事厌烦)
grind: implies dreary, monotonous labor exhausting to the mind or body: the ~ of performing the play eight times a week.
work劳动: 表示身体思维机器或自然力的活动，还表示努力及其成果，labor费力劳动: 指费力的劳动，travail苦难,分娩: 有些书卷气，指让人疼痛苦难的劳动，toil辛劳: 指长期的费力的劳动，drudgery枯燥劳动: 表示枯燥让人厌烦的劳动，grind枯燥又费力的劳动: 既枯燥(dreary无趣monotonous单调)又让人身心疲惫的劳动
记忆方法: 1）首字母WLTTDG重组成TWGTLD他务工她劳动<==人人劳动
2）劳动的意思是需要努力或费力的活动mean activity involving effort or exertion.
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