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

• What do earlier banking crises reveal about America's travails today?
  之前的银行危机为今天美国的阵痛带来何种启示？
• Our travails were greatly outweighed by the great competitors and competition we saw and the vast panorama of activity and international interaction.
  与我们看到的伟大运动员和精彩比赛以及整个奥运会活动和国际交往相比，我们的这些辛苦根本不算什么。
• Less attention has been paid to the political lessons that the Japanese themselves drew from their travails.
  而日本人从自身痛苦经历中吸取的政治教训，则较少受到关注。
• 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。
• 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。
• Out of all the travails you have had or are to experience, will come the sweetness of success.
  走出所有的劫难，你们已经受的够多或者体验够多，将会被胜利的甜蜜取代。
• The steep drop-off in market activity in the second half of 2011 highlighted that business in Asia does not even provide an uncorrelated buffer against the travails of the West more than four years after the onset of the financial crisis.
  2011年下半年市场活动陡然萎缩，这突出表明，在金融危机爆发四年多之后，亚洲业务仍无法超然于西方的痛苦挣扎之外，发挥一定的缓冲作用。
• News of her predictable travails leads to a rush of interest from Chinese journalists, who seem eager to use her story to support their own apparently jingoistic agenda – and to prove that to try to live without China is to pitch your happiness into the wind.
  这一消息引起了中国记者的浓厚兴趣，他们似乎热切希望利用她的故事来支持自己明显狭隘民族主义的议程，并以此证明，试图过没有中国产品的生活是把自己的幸福抛到风中。
• 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。
• Societe Generale declined to discuss its training policies, but it would be surprising if banks thought less, rather than more, education and training was the answer to their recent travails.
  兴业银行拒绝讨论其培训政策，但如果各银行认为，减少（而非加强）教育和培训是针对近期危机的答案，那就怪了。