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

• But this is a complex argument, as the current travails of BP illustrate.
  但这个论点没那么简单，眼下英国石油（bp）遭受的磨难就是一个例证。
• Of course, these travails are relative.
  当然，这些痛苦都是相对的。
• 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。
• News of her predictable travails leads to a rush of interest from Chinese journalists, who seem eager to use her story to support their own apparently jingoistic agenda – and to prove that to try to live without China is to pitch your happiness into the wind.
  这一消息引起了中国记者的浓厚兴趣，他们似乎热切希望利用她的故事来支持自己明显狭隘民族主义的议程，并以此证明，试图过没有中国产品的生活是把自己的幸福抛到风中。
• What do earlier banking crises reveal about America's travails today?
  之前的银行危机为今天美国的阵痛带来何种启示？
• Out of all the travails you have had or are to experience, will come the sweetness of success.
  走出所有的劫难，你们已经受的够多或者体验够多，将会被胜利的甜蜜取代。
• Let me be clear here: The only way for children to build a true sense of competence is through first-hand experience that includes travails, triumphs, struggles, setbacks, and successes.
  这儿让我说清楚：为孩子建立真正意义上的能力唯一方式就是第一手的体验，包括艰辛、胜利、斗争、挫折和成功。
• 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。
• Optimism, whether born or learned, may make the travails of teenagerhood a bit less painful for us all.
  乐观，不管与生俱来的还是学习获得的，会使我们苦苦挣扎的青少年时期少一点痛苦。
• It has no doubt benefitted from the travails of Nokia ( NOK) and research in motion ( RIMM).
  毫无疑问，三星从诺基亚（Nokia）和黑莓手机生产商ResearchinMotion的颓势中获益良多。