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

• The travails of the British car industry are Seldon out of the news.
  英国汽车工业的艰辛新闻很少有不报道的。
• 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。
• What do earlier banking crises reveal about America's travails today?
  之前的银行危机为今天美国的阵痛带来何种启示？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Let me be clear here: The only way for children to build a true sense of competence is through first-hand experience that includes travails, triumphs, struggles, setbacks, and successes.
  这儿让我说清楚：为孩子建立真正意义上的能力唯一方式就是第一手的体验，包括艰辛、胜利、斗争、挫折和成功。
• Of course, it is important not to exaggerate the role of foreign policy in the travails of Mr Obama.
  当然，我们不应夸大外交政策在奥巴马艰难处境中所扮演的角色。
• 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。
• 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。