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

• Spinning through this field of wisdom, I immediately thought of the travails surrounding apple ( AAPL).
  回味投资领域的智慧时，我马上想到了近来苹果（Apple）股票令投资者连连亏损的情况。
• 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。
• Both have also made potential endorsers unhappy in their recent travails.
  在最近的繁忙工作中他们都给潜在的接替者制造不愉快。
• Less attention has been paid to the political lessons that the Japanese themselves drew from their travails.
  而日本人从自身痛苦经历中吸取的政治教训，则较少受到关注。
• While Einstein also talked about the travails of his continuing work in physics, most of Johanna Fantova's diary recalls his views on world politics and his personal life.
  尽管爱因斯坦也谈论他长期从事物理研究工作的辛苦，在女友乔安娜·范多娃的日记中，大部分内容都是回忆爱因斯坦对于世界政治和个人生活的看法。
• 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。
• She told them the Obama administration will stand by them in their travails.
  克林顿告诉她们，在她们遭受痛苦和艰辛的时候，奥巴马政府和他们站在一道。
• 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。
• But there does not appear much other companies can learn from Malaysia Airlines 'travails.
  但是其它公司似乎没办法从马来西亚航空公司（MalaysiaAirlines）的困境中学到什么。
• 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。