travail

英 [ˈtræveɪl]

美 [ˈtræveɪl]

n.  艰苦劳动; 煎熬; 艰辛; 痛苦

复数：travails　现在分词：travailing　过去式：travailed　第三人称单数：travails　过去分词：travailed　

BNC.24228 / COCA.17612

牛津词典

noun

• 艰苦劳动；煎熬；艰辛；痛苦
  an unpleasant experience or situation that involves a lot of hard work, difficulties and/or suffering

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 艰苦劳动;难题
  You can refer to unpleasant hard work or difficult problems astravail.
  1. He did whatever he could to ease their travail.
     他为减轻他们的辛劳做了力所能及的一切。

英英释义

noun

• use of physical or mental energy
  1. he got an A for effort
  2. they managed only with great exertion
  Synonym:effortelbow greaseexertionsweat
• concluding state of pregnancy
  1. she was in labor for six hours
  Synonym:parturiencylaborlabourconfinementlying-inchildbed

verb

• work hard
  1. She was digging away at her math homework
  2. Lexicographers drudge all day long
  Synonym:laborlabourtoilfaggrinddrudgedigmoil

双语例句

• God's greatest gifts come through travail.
  神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。
• At the outset of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, Xian, a renowned Chinese composer, arrived in Almaty after much travail.
  1941年伟大卫国战争爆发，中国著名音乐家冼星海辗转来到阿拉木图。
• Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
  你们且访问看看，男人有产难吗。
• Second, the crushing defeat of the hard-left parties robs the biggest union, the Communist-backed Conf é d é ration G é n é rale du Travail ( CGT), of some of its force.
  其次，极左政党的大溃败削弱了最大工会&法国总工会的部分影响力。
• For, she suffers in great travail from day to day, while you behave as you do!
  她患有每天在伟大的阵痛，而你的行为你！
• Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
  值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
• World had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
  社会必须经历阵痛以便让最卑微的花开放。
• This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。
• With much bodily toil and mental travail he wrote the decree upon half a sheet of foolscap and then copy it upon the other.
  他用尽全身气力，绞尽脑汁在半张大页书写纸上写下判决词，然后又抄到另外半张纸上。
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
  艺术是人类灵魂中沉淀的蜂蜜，只有通过痛苦和辛劳才能获得。