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travail

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n.辛苦

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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

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exertion  effort  strain  tug  pull  stress  struggle  toil  work  labor  travail  manual labor    

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