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单词 travail
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Definition of travail in English:

travail

noun ˈtraveɪl
mass nounalso travailsliterary
  • 1Painful or laborious effort.

    艰苦劳动,辛勤努力

    advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail

    对那些不想承受巨大痛苦与艰辛之人的忠告。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The pathos of the Satrean autodidact resides in the nature of his ‘appeal’, the gaze for which he stages his behaviour, the symbolic Big Other to which he submits his uncomplaining travail.
    • Springsteen often follows a songwriting strategy that dates back to songs such as ‘Badlands’, with verses full of travail, and choruses that ring with optimism.
    • These included the publication of De Profundis, the issue of a twelve-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, and Ross's enormous travail for the benefaction of Wilde's orphaned sons.
    • Today I'm just enormously grateful that such things exist and can be called upon in times of travail.
    • And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
    Synonyms
    hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding
    ordeal, trial, tribulation
    1. 1.1 Labour pains.
      分娩的阵痛
      a woman in travail

      一位经受分娩阵痛的妇女。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Anesthetics and antiseptics have manacled the demon pain, and the curse of travail has been lifted from the soul of women.
      • Our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
      • A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow.
verb ˈtraveɪl
[no object]literary
  • 1Engage in painful or laborious effort.

    艰苦劳动,辛勤努力

    creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Paul knew he had to labour like a woman weary after hours of labour pains to effect new life in people: ‘I travail again in birth.’
    1. 1.1 (of a woman) be in labour.
      (妇女)分娩,处于阵痛期
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium 'instrument of torture', from Latin tres 'three' + palus 'stake'.

Definition of travail in US English:

travail

noun
also travailsliterary
  • 1Painful or laborious effort.

    艰苦劳动,辛勤努力

    advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail

    对那些不想承受巨大痛苦与艰辛之人的忠告。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Springsteen often follows a songwriting strategy that dates back to songs such as ‘Badlands’, with verses full of travail, and choruses that ring with optimism.
    • These included the publication of De Profundis, the issue of a twelve-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, and Ross's enormous travail for the benefaction of Wilde's orphaned sons.
    • The pathos of the Satrean autodidact resides in the nature of his ‘appeal’, the gaze for which he stages his behaviour, the symbolic Big Other to which he submits his uncomplaining travail.
    • And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
    • Today I'm just enormously grateful that such things exist and can be called upon in times of travail.
    Synonyms
    hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding
    ordeal, trial, tribulation
    1. 1.1 Labor pains.
      分娩的阵痛
      a woman in travail

      一位经受分娩阵痛的妇女。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
      • A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow.
      • Anesthetics and antiseptics have manacled the demon pain, and the curse of travail has been lifted from the soul of women.
verb
[no object]literary
  • 1Engage in painful or laborious effort.

    艰苦劳动,辛勤努力

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Paul knew he had to labour like a woman weary after hours of labour pains to effect new life in people: ‘I travail again in birth.’
    1. 1.1 (of a woman) be in labor.
      (妇女)分娩,处于阵痛期
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’.

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