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travail n.分娩的痛苦；阵痛；辛劳v.苦干；辛劳；（因分娩）发生阵痛 (1) 母亲们了解分娩时的痛苦。(2) 他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。 Travail comes to us from a sinister Latin word: trepalium, meaning “instrument of torture.” The closest English word is probably toil, though travail means you’re not just exerting monumental effort but suffering as you do so. If your life has been hard-knock enough to be the stuff of old blues songs or Shakespearean tragedies, you’ve had your share of travails. In French, incidentally, travail simply means work. The Spanish trabajo (work) is closely related.

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英 ['træveɪl] 美 ['træveɪl] (1) Mothers know the travail of giving birth to a child.(2) He gained the medal through his painful travail. If you’ve had to bust your behind, burn the midnight oil, and shed blood, sweat, and tears to get where you are today, you could say you’ve endured significant travail. In other words, back-breakingly hard mental exertion or physical labor. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]艰苦劳动；难题 You can refer to unpleasant hard work or difficult problems as travail .   [LITERARY 文]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。

英语单词	travail
英美音标	英 ['træveɪl] 美 ['træveɪl]
中文释义	n.分娩的痛苦；阵痛；辛劳 v.苦干；辛劳；（因分娩）发生阵痛
英语例句	(1) Mothers know the travail of giving birth to a child. (2) He gained the medal through his painful travail.
中文例句	(1) 母亲们了解分娩时的痛苦。 (2) 他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
vocabulary简明	If you’ve had to bust your behind, burn the midnight oil, and shed blood, sweat, and tears to get where you are today, you could say you’ve endured significant travail. In other words, back-breakingly hard mental exertion or physical labor.
vocabulary扩展	Travail comes to us from a sinister Latin word: trepalium, meaning “instrument of torture.” The closest English word is probably toil, though travail means you’re not just exerting monumental effort but suffering as you do so. If your life has been hard-knock enough to be the stuff of old blues songs or Shakespearean tragedies, you’ve had your share of travails. In French, incidentally, travail simply means work. The Spanish trabajo (work) is closely related.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]艰苦劳动；难题 You can refer to unpleasant hard work or difficult problems as travail . [LITERARY 文] 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。

Travail You’ve Hard Means 英 Træveɪl] 美 Træveɪl N.分娩的痛苦；阵痛；辛劳