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
- 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。 - Nixon, whatever his travail, would see it through.
尼克松置他的痛苦处境于不顾，坚决要把这件事干到底。 - 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。 - 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。 - For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night.
因为他日日忧虑，他的劳苦成为愁烦。连夜间心也不安。 - Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
值得更高明的笔的精写细描； - 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。 - 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。 - 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！