travails

英 [ˈtræveɪlz]

美 [trəˈveɪlz]

n.  艰苦劳动; 煎熬; 艰辛; 痛苦
travail的复数

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。

双语例句

• Let me be clear here: The only way for children to build a true sense of competence is through first-hand experience that includes travails, triumphs, struggles, setbacks, and successes.
  这儿让我说清楚：为孩子建立真正意义上的能力唯一方式就是第一手的体验，包括艰辛、胜利、斗争、挫折和成功。
• Out of all the travails you have had or are to experience, will come the sweetness of success.
  走出所有的劫难，你们已经受的够多或者体验够多，将会被胜利的甜蜜取代。
• Societe Generale declined to discuss its training policies, but it would be surprising if banks thought less, rather than more, education and training was the answer to their recent travails.
  兴业银行拒绝讨论其培训政策，但如果各银行认为，减少（而非加强）教育和培训是针对近期危机的答案，那就怪了。
• Chirac turned 80 last month and reportedly has little interest in the travails of his party.
  上个月，希拉克年满80岁，据称他对其政党中的苦差事兴致缺缺。
• The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.
  太后得寻找另一个防卫者，否则今天的痛苦就只是程度最轻的。
• Both have also made potential endorsers unhappy in their recent travails.
  在最近的繁忙工作中他们都给潜在的接替者制造不愉快。
• While Einstein also talked about the travails of his continuing work in physics, most of Johanna Fantova's diary recalls his views on world politics and his personal life.
  尽管爱因斯坦也谈论他长期从事物理研究工作的辛苦，在女友乔安娜·范多娃的日记中，大部分内容都是回忆爱因斯坦对于世界政治和个人生活的看法。
• She told them the Obama administration will stand by them in their travails.
  克林顿告诉她们，在她们遭受痛苦和艰辛的时候，奥巴马政府和他们站在一道。
• Optimism, whether born or learned, may make the travails of teenagerhood a bit less painful for us all.
  乐观，不管与生俱来的还是学习获得的，会使我们苦苦挣扎的青少年时期少一点痛苦。
• The subindexes that comprise the PMI showed a sharp drop in export orders but a general increase in new orders an indication that domestic strength was more than cushioning the impact of Europe's debt travails.
  构成PMI指数的几个分类指数显示，出口订单大幅下降，但新订单总体上升，说明国内经济的强劲程度足以抵消欧债危机的冲击。