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.


 Tra·vail n.  Same as Travois.


 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.

 ◄ ►


 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]