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

• Out of all the travails you have had or are to experience, will come the sweetness of success.
  走出所有的劫难，你们已经受的够多或者体验够多，将会被胜利的甜蜜取代。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But this is a complex argument, as the current travails of BP illustrate.
  但这个论点没那么简单，眼下英国石油（bp）遭受的磨难就是一个例证。
• 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。