| 单词 | travail |
| 释义 | travail /treuh vayl", trav"ayl/, n. 1. painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil. 2. pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship. 3. the pain of childbirth. v.i. 4. to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor. 5. to toil or exert oneself. [1200-50; (v.) ME travaillen < OF travaillier to torment < VL *trepaliare to torture, deriv. of LL trepalium torture chamber, lit., instrument of torture made with three stakes (see TRI-, PALE2); (n.) ME < OF: suffering, deriv. of travailler] Syn. 1. labor, moil. 2. torment, agony. |
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