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

Deserves the travail of a worthier pen.
值得更高明的笔的精写细描；
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 had also wanted power-looms to work, but after all His travail only one little country towel was born, and then the loom stopped.
他也想使动力织机运转，但在他的种种艰苦努力之后，织机只生产了一小块土里土气的毛巾就停止转动。
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。
God's greatest gifts come through travail.
神的最大赐予，都要经过了苦痛方能得到。
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？
She deserved a vacation after a long travail.
辛苦工作后，她值得休个假。
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。