travail

travails 是 travail 的复数形式/第三人称单数,页面展示原形释义。
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  • n. 分娩的痛苦;艰苦劳动
  • vi. 辛勤努力;经受分娩的阵痛
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1. travel travail. 变体、异体。
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中文词源

travail 煎熬,痛苦,艰辛

来自古法语 travail,痛苦,煎熬,来自通俗拉丁语 tripaliare,折磨,来自拉丁语 trepalium,刑具, 一种由三根尖木桩组成的折磨工具,来自 tri-,三,词源同 three,palus,柱子,尖桩,词源同 impale,pole.

英语词源

travail (n.)
"labor, toil," mid-13c., from Old French travail "work, labor, toil, suffering or painful effort, trouble; arduous journey" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture, torment," from Vulgar Latin *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in Late Latin trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from Latin tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria "three;" see three + palus "stake;" see pale (n.)), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from late 13c. in English, from the verb in Old French.

权威例句

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。
2. Mothers know the travail of giving birth to a child.
母亲们了解分娩时的痛苦.
3. He gained the medal through his painful travail.
他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌.
4. World had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
社会必须经历阵痛以便让最卑微的花开放.
5. The travail of nationhood required above all economic and social progress.
国家的兴旺首先需要经济方面和社会方向的进步.

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