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.- 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。
- He did whatever he could to ease their travail.
英英释义
noun
- use of physical or mental energy
- he got an A for effort
- they managed only with great exertion
- concluding state of pregnancy
- she was in labor for six hours
verb
- work hard
- She was digging away at her math homework
- Lexicographers drudge all day long
双语例句
- 1thes. 2:9 for you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: while working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of god.
帖前二9弟兄们,你们原记得我们的劳碌辛苦;我们是昼夜作工,把神的福音传扬给你们,免得叫你们任何人受累。 - 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。 - 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。 - She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
辛苦工作后,她值得休个假。 - We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
我们听见他们的风声,手就发软。痛苦将我们抓住,疼痛彷佛产难的妇人。 - This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
这也是虚空,是极重的劳苦。 - 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! - I used to feel it a terrible thing that my mother should have to toil so endlessly. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
过去我常以为我母亲竟得如此无休止地辛苦工作是件可怕的事情。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。 - 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。