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

• Throughout my life, I have had to face few outward travails.
  在我的一生中很少需要去面对一些外在的痛苦。
• 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。
• Do not be distracted by the current turbulence in financial markets, however tempting it is to see the collapse of the dollar and the travails of investment banks as signs of us decadence.
  切莫被金融市场当前的动荡扰乱视线，美元的崩溃和投行的阵痛很容易被人视为美国衰败的迹象。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The steep drop-off in market activity in the second half of 2011 highlighted that business in Asia does not even provide an uncorrelated buffer against the travails of the West more than four years after the onset of the financial crisis.
  2011年下半年市场活动陡然萎缩，这突出表明，在金融危机爆发四年多之后，亚洲业务仍无法超然于西方的痛苦挣扎之外，发挥一定的缓冲作用。
• She told them the Obama administration will stand by them in their travails.
  克林顿告诉她们，在她们遭受痛苦和艰辛的时候，奥巴马政府和他们站在一道。
• The subindexes that comprise the PMI showed a sharp drop in export orders but a general increase in new orders an indication that domestic strength was more than cushioning the impact of Europe's debt travails.
  构成PMI指数的几个分类指数显示，出口订单大幅下降，但新订单总体上升，说明国内经济的强劲程度足以抵消欧债危机的冲击。
• Italy's economic travails have attracted less attention recently.
  最近意大利的经济阵痛引起的关注已经减少。