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 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？
• This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
  这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• I have seen the travail that God has given the children of men to travail in.
  我见神将辛劳给世人，使他们在其中操劳。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
  你们且访问看看，男人有产难吗。