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 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。
• Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
  西吨哪，你当惭愧。因为大海说，就是海中的保障说，我没有劬劳，也没有生产，没有养育男子，也没有抚养童女。
• But I wou1d1ike to do the same with the acclaim too by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and woman, already dedicated to the same anguish and travail.
  但我还愿意利用这个时刻，利用这个举世瞩目的讲坛，向那些可能听到我说话并已献身于同一艰苦劳动的男女青年致敬。
• Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
  值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
  艺术是人类灵魂中沉淀的蜂蜜，只有通过痛苦和辛劳才能获得。
• 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。
• Will not pains take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?
  痛苦岂不将你抓住，像产难的妇人么？
• 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。
• She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
  辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
• 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。