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

• Indeed, whenever any candidate has defended evidence-based science, they have suffered a backlash: witness the travails of Mitt Romney.
  实际上，无论哪位候选人为循证科学辩护，他们都会遭到激烈的反对：看看米特罗姆尼（mittromney）的痛苦经历吧。
• 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。
• Chirac turned 80 last month and reportedly has little interest in the travails of his party.
  上个月，希拉克年满80岁，据称他对其政党中的苦差事兴致缺缺。
• 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。
• 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。
• Spinning through this field of wisdom, I immediately thought of the travails surrounding apple ( AAPL).
  回味投资领域的智慧时，我马上想到了近来苹果（Apple）股票令投资者连连亏损的情况。
• 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。
• It has no doubt benefitted from the travails of Nokia ( NOK) and research in motion ( RIMM).
  毫无疑问，三星从诺基亚（Nokia）和黑莓手机生产商ResearchinMotion的颓势中获益良多。
• 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。
• Such frustrations are strikingly similar to Chinese complaints about the travails of doing business in India.
  这些不满，与中国人对在印度做生意艰辛的抱怨有着惊人的相似。