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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He gained the medal through his painful travail.
他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
辛苦工作后,她值得休个假。