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

• 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。
• 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？
• Less attention has been paid to the political lessons that the Japanese themselves drew from their travails.
  而日本人从自身痛苦经历中吸取的政治教训，则较少受到关注。
• 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。
• 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。
• Once she reached its gates, the worst of her travails would be over.
  一旦她到达红堡大门，最难熬的一部分就结束了。
• While Einstein also talked about the travails of his continuing work in physics, most of Johanna Fantova's diary recalls his views on world politics and his personal life.
  尽管爱因斯坦也谈论他长期从事物理研究工作的辛苦，在女友乔安娜·范多娃的日记中，大部分内容都是回忆爱因斯坦对于世界政治和个人生活的看法。
• Societe Generale declined to discuss its training policies, but it would be surprising if banks thought less, rather than more, education and training was the answer to their recent travails.
  兴业银行拒绝讨论其培训政策，但如果各银行认为，减少（而非加强）教育和培训是针对近期危机的答案，那就怪了。
• She told them the Obama administration will stand by them in their travails.
  克林顿告诉她们，在她们遭受痛苦和艰辛的时候，奥巴马政府和他们站在一道。
• The travails of the British car industry are Seldon out of the news.
  英国汽车工业的艰辛新闻很少有不报道的。