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 gained the medal through his painful travail.
  他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
• He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
  有许多人，因认识我的义仆得称为义。并且他要担当他们的罪孽。
• This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
  辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。