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

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。

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

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
你们且访问看看，男人有产难吗。
She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
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？
This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
这也是虚空，是极重的劳苦。
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。
I have seen the travail that God has given the children of men to travail in.
我见神将辛劳给世人，使他们在其中操劳。
Nixon, whatever his travail, would see it through.
尼克松置他的痛苦处境于不顾，坚决要把这件事干到底。
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。
At the outset of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, Xian, a renowned Chinese composer, arrived in Almaty after much travail.
1941年伟大卫国战争爆发，中国著名音乐家冼星海辗转来到阿拉木图。
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
你这住黎巴嫩，在香柏树上搭窝的，有痛苦临到你，好像疼痛临到产难的妇人，那时你何等可怜。