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 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。 - Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
值得更高明的笔的精写细描； - 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。 - 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。 - She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。 - 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。 - 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。 - I used to feel it a terrible thing that my mother should have to toil so endlessly. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
过去我常以为我母亲竟得如此无休止地辛苦工作是件可怕的事情。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。 - 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。 - 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。