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 gained the medal through his painful travail.
他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
这也是虚空,是极重的劳苦。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。