travail
美音:
[trə´veıl
]英音:
[trə´veıl
]n.辛苦
难易程度:
travail为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:travailed 过去分词:travailed 现在分词:travailing 第三人称单数:travails
近义词, 同义词
travail
/'træveɪl; [US] trə'veɪl; trə`vel/
n [U]
1 (arch or rhet 古或修辞) painful effort 艰辛的努力.
2 (arch 古) pains of giving birth to a child (分娩的)阵痛.
travail
n[U]written
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French;Origin: travaillier 'to torture, work very hard', from Vulgar Latin tripaliare 'to torture', from tripalium 'instrument of torture', from Latin tri- 'three' + palus 'sharp stick']
alsotravails [plural]
a difficult or unpleasant situation, or very tiring work
travail of
the travails of last year's water shortage