单词 | travail |
释义 | travail/ˈtraveɪl![]() literary noun [mass noun] (also travails) 1Painful or laborious effort: advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail...
1.1Labour pains: a woman in travail...
verb [no object] 1Engage in painful or laborious effort: creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny...
1.1(Of a woman) be in labour.And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. OriginMiddle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium 'instrument of torture', from Latin tres 'three' + palus 'stake'. |
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