| 单词 | in travail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin travail 2. The effort and pain of childbirth; labour. Frequently (and earliest) in in travail [after Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French en travail (12th cent.)] : in labour. Also figurative.Sometimes perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains cothec1000 throea1200 pining throesc1225 travailc1300 showera1350 paina1398 travailinga1400 throng1540 labouring1598 travail pang1652 travail pain1662 labour pains1703 mother-pain1709 mother-pang1710 breeding sicknessa1714 bearing pain1787 troublea1825 birth throe1837 the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > labour or pains in travailc1300 travailingc1405 labouring1540 child labour1585 laborious1615 in labour1623 c1300 St. Leonard (Laud) l. 29 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 457 Þe Quene was with childe grete, þudere men gonne hire bringue, Ȝif heo þe betere miȝhte for solas ouer-come hire childingue. Þo he was in trauail, heo ne miȝhte ouer-come it nouȝht. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 237 Vor in travail of his beringe is moder was verst ded. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xlvii[i]. 6 Feare came there vpon them, & sorowe as vpon a woman in hir trauayle. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. v. sig. Lv Cup. Is not that Amorphus the Traueller? Mer... Do you not see how his legges are in trauaile with a Measure? 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 180 His wife dying after travel of a daughter. 1897 T. Hardy Well-beloved ii. xiii. 215 Between the travail of the sea without, and the travail of the woman within. 2014 S. Thomas Witch Hunter's Tale 130 I was with Lucy Pierce when she was in travail... I delivered her of a stillborn child. in travail ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse eclipsec1374 clipse1377 obscurationa1550 defect1571 superation1585 travail1593 occultation1601 deliquium1648 immersion1690 incidence1728 1593 T. Kelway tr. A. Ferrier Learned Astron. Disc. Natiuities i. iv. f. 5 The part of trauaile by water by day, is from Saturne vnto the fifteenth degree of Cancer, from the ascendant, at night to the contrary. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xii. 9 Seeing these things, and the paineful ordinarie travels (since that this tearme is now taken up) of the starres. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. i. 75 Eclipses of the Sun and Moone, in which they are commonly thought to suffer, and to bee as it were in travell during that time. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions i. 2 No eye gazeth on the Moone, but in her Travell. 1823 J. Neal Randolph I. 107 It grew suddenly dark, just then—and I stopped. Was the moon in travail, aunt? Did some spectre pass between me, and the light, just then? < as lemmas |
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