tra·vail /trəˈve(ə)l, ˈtræˌvel/
分娩的痛苦,陣痛,辛勞(vi.)發生陣痛,辛勞
tra·vail /trəˈve(ə)l, ˈtrævˌel/ 名詞
分娩,生產
Trav·ail n.
1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require travail. --Hooker.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Trav·ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] “Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.”
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Trav·ail, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. --Hayward.
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travail
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in,
childbed]
2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A
for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat]
v : work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil]