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

• He had also wanted power-looms to work, but after all His travail only one little country towel was born, and then the loom stopped.
  他也想使动力织机运转，但在他的种种艰苦努力之后，织机只生产了一小块土里土气的毛巾就停止转动。
• 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。
• I have seen the travail that God has given the children of men to travail in.
  我见神将辛劳给世人，使他们在其中操劳。
• He gained the medal through his painful travail.
  他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
• For all his days are sorrow, and his travail is vexation; even at night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
  23因为他一生的日子都是忧伤，他的辛劳成为愁烦，连夜间心也不安息。这也是虚空。
• O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
  你这住黎巴嫩，在香柏树上搭窝的，有痛苦临到你，好像疼痛临到产难的妇人，那时你何等可怜。
• 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。
• God's greatest gifts come through travail.
  神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。
• She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
  辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
• Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  我怎吗看见人人用手掐腰，像产难的妇人，脸面都变青了呢。