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

• But there does not appear much other companies can learn from Malaysia Airlines 'travails.
  但是其它公司似乎没办法从马来西亚航空公司（MalaysiaAirlines）的困境中学到什么。
• The travails of the British car industry are Seldon out of the news.
  英国汽车工业的艰辛新闻很少有不报道的。
• Once she reached its gates, the worst of her travails would be over.
  一旦她到达红堡大门，最难熬的一部分就结束了。
• But this is a complex argument, as the current travails of BP illustrate.
  但这个论点没那么简单，眼下英国石油（bp）遭受的磨难就是一个例证。
• 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。
• Do not be distracted by the current turbulence in financial markets, however tempting it is to see the collapse of the dollar and the travails of investment banks as signs of us decadence.
  切莫被金融市场当前的动荡扰乱视线，美元的崩溃和投行的阵痛很容易被人视为美国衰败的迹象。
• Throughout my life, I have had to face few outward travails.
  在我的一生中很少需要去面对一些外在的痛苦。
• 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。
• Indeed, whenever any candidate has defended evidence-based science, they have suffered a backlash: witness the travails of Mitt Romney.
  实际上，无论哪位候选人为循证科学辩护，他们都会遭到激烈的反对：看看米特罗姆尼（mittromney）的痛苦经历吧。