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

• She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
  辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
• God's greatest gifts come through travail.
  神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。
• 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。
• 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。
• For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  弟兄们，你们记念我们的辛苦劳碌，昼夜作工，传神的福音给你们，免得叫你们一人受累。
• 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。
• Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
  值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
• With days of hard travail I raised a temple. It had no doors or windows, its walls were thickly built with massive stones. a top ( as for a bottle).
  用了几天的苦工，我盖起一座庙宇。这庙里没有门窗，墙壁是用层石厚厚地垒起的。
• 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。