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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。 - 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？ - For all his days are sorrow, and his travail is vexation; even at night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
23因为他一生的日子都是忧伤，他的辛劳成为愁烦，连夜间心也不安息。这也是虚空。 - 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！ - He gained the medal through his painful travail.
他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。