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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But there does not appear much other companies can learn from Malaysia Airlines 'travails.
  但是其它公司似乎没办法从马来西亚航空公司（MalaysiaAirlines）的困境中学到什么。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。