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

• 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。
• But this is a complex argument, as the current travails of BP illustrate.
  但这个论点没那么简单，眼下英国石油（bp）遭受的磨难就是一个例证。
• 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。
• The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.
  太后得寻找另一个防卫者，否则今天的痛苦就只是程度最轻的。
• 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。
• Do not be distracted by the current turbulence in financial markets, however tempting it is to see the collapse of the dollar and the travails of investment banks as signs of us decadence.
  切莫被金融市场当前的动荡扰乱视线，美元的崩溃和投行的阵痛很容易被人视为美国衰败的迹象。
• 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。
• Before he arrived at the border, he had to endure many travails.
  在他到达边境之前，他必须忍受很多劳苦。
• Both have also made potential endorsers unhappy in their recent travails.
  在最近的繁忙工作中他们都给潜在的接替者制造不愉快。