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

• Let me be clear here: The only way for children to build a true sense of competence is through first-hand experience that includes travails, triumphs, struggles, setbacks, and successes.
  这儿让我说清楚：为孩子建立真正意义上的能力唯一方式就是第一手的体验，包括艰辛、胜利、斗争、挫折和成功。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Italy's economic travails have attracted less attention recently.
  最近意大利的经济阵痛引起的关注已经减少。
• 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。