1.辛苦,劳苦;苦工;劳动,工作
2.分娩;阵痛
1.辛苦工作;发生[感到]阵痛
1.a very difficult situation, or a situation in which you must work very hard
1.For the next year, the actress' travails seemed to play out on a split screen, with tabloid stories mirroring Aniston's movie titles.
第二年，小报用安妮斯顿拍的电影名字影射她的生活，这位女星挑战大银幕的努力似乎白费了。
2.Unlike previous years, she has no vacation plans and is wary of her travails a decade ago, she said.
不像前几年，她今年已经不准备度假了，而且还得担心10年前的阵痛是否会再次降临，她说。
3.The post-Communist travails of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example" .
前苏联后共产主义时期的痛苦一直都是宝贵的教训，中国共产党过去常常称之为“负面教材”。
4.Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that country's travails.
想想苏丹吧，人们都已经忘了那里极度的贫穷是由荒漠化造成的。
5.The queen had to find another defender or today's ordeal would be the least of her travails.
太后必须另找一个代理骑士，否则下场将惨不忍睹，今日的折磨相比之下根本微不足道。
6.This social democratic solution to the travails of the financial sector is widely advocated right across the political spectrum .
这种针对金融部门困境的社会民主式解决办法，得到了各个政治阶层的广泛提倡。
7.Many of Rio's subsequent travails are a result of the enormous debt it took on to outbid America's Alcoa with a knockout $38 billion offer.
力拓为了出价高于美国铝业而给出380亿美元的压倒性报价，为此欠下巨额债款，这也成为事后力拓公司诸多痛苦的根源。
8.Pressed to say what he has learned from Barack Obama's early travails as American President, Mr Cameron is diplomatically reticent.
当问起从巴拉克·奥巴马早期的“痛苦经历”中学到什么时，卡麦隆玩起了外交沉默。
9.Once she reached its gates, the worst of her travails would be over.
一旦她到达红堡大门，最难熬的一部分就结束了。
10.Admittedly, some of the travails of the European centre-left reflect problems that are peculiar to the old continent.
诚然，一些欧洲中左党派经历的阵痛所反映出来的问题是欧洲大陆所特有的。