| 单词 | travail |
| 释义 | travail I. travail 1. a. < tackles his outdoor travail with the furious drive of a bulldozer — R.L.Taylor > < sat glum and thoughtful, his mind in unproductive travail — Rafael Sabatini > < periods of high intellectual achievement and travail, of critical analysis and doubt — Times Literary Supplement > b. < manfully undertakes his assigned travail > < my literary travail — G.B.Shaw > — often used in plural < reminisced on the travails of campaigning — New York Times > c. < chose … to share France's travail as earlier he had shared her happier days — Paul Farmer > < rises joyously superior to the outward calamities … and celebrates the greatness of the human spirit whose travail he describes — J.W.Krutch > < the travail of an artist in a society of so many material conveniences — M.D.Geismar > — sometimes used in plural < takes up some of the special travails of the upper classes — Rex Lardner > 2. < woman must marry because the race must perish without her travail — G.B.Shaw > < suggested that the nation had been long in travail, and had at last produced a man — John Buchan > 3. obsolete Synonyms: see work II. travail intransitive verb 1. < travails hard for his daily wage > 2. 3. obsolete transitive verb 1. archaic 2. obsolete III. tra·vail |
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