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

• 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。
• With much bodily toil and mental travail he wrote the decree upon half a sheet of foolscap and then copy it upon the other.
  他用尽全身气力，绞尽脑汁在半张大页书写纸上写下判决词，然后又抄到另外半张纸上。
• Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
  值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
• God's greatest gifts come through travail.
  神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。
• He gained the medal through his painful travail.
  他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。