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
- 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。 - God's greatest gifts come through travail.
神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。 - World had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
社会必须经历阵痛以便让最卑微的花开放。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He gained the medal through his painful travail.
他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
有许多人，因认识我的义仆得称为义。并且他要担当他们的罪孽。 - This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。