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

• 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。
• He gained the medal through his painful travail.
  他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
• 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。
• He had also wanted power-looms to work, but after all His travail only one little country towel was born, and then the loom stopped.
  他也想使动力织机运转，但在他的种种艰苦努力之后，织机只生产了一小块土里土气的毛巾就停止转动。
• With days of hard travail I raised a temple. It had no doors or windows, its walls were thickly built with massive stones. a top ( as for a bottle).
  用了几天的苦工，我盖起一座庙宇。这庙里没有门窗，墙壁是用层石厚厚地垒起的。
• 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？
• We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
  我们听见他们的风声，手就发软。痛苦将我们抓住，疼痛彷佛产难的妇人。
• 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。
• 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。