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

• 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。
• For, she suffers in great travail from day to day, while you behave as you do!
  她患有每天在伟大的阵痛，而你的行为你！
• 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。
• O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
  你这住黎巴嫩，在香柏树上搭窝的，有痛苦临到你，好像疼痛临到产难的妇人，那时你何等可怜。
• Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
  值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
• 1thes. 2:9 for you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: while working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of god.
  帖前二9弟兄们，你们原记得我们的劳碌辛苦；我们是昼夜作工，把神的福音传扬给你们，免得叫你们任何人受累。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。