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travails
英：【ˈtræveɪlz】美：【trəˈveɪlz】
英：
美：
n.
<文>痛苦，艰辛；分娩的阵痛（travail的复数）
vi.
苦干，辛勤劳动；经受分娩的阵痛（travail的现在分词）
原型:travail
1、
travails
with Charlie ─── 和查理的痛苦
1、travails with Charlie ─── 和查理的痛苦
1、For the next year, the actress
travails
seemed to play out on a split screen, with tabloid stories mirroring Anistons 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、The team, despite their recent
travails
, are still in the game. ─── 这支运动队，尽管近来遇到了难题，但还没有出局。
3、Who is to blame for our sudden
travails
? ─── 谁是这突降苦难的罪魁？
4、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”。
5、Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that countrys
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。
6、The queen had to find another defender or todays 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。
7、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。
8、Meanwhile, the Wests financial
travails
are not for ever. ─── 然而与此同时，西方国家的金融阵痛也不是永久的。
9、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。
The post-Communist
travails
of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example".
Martels acclaimed novel chronicles the
travails
of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, injured zebra, hungry hyena and brooding Bengal tiger for company.
But as I discovered in the course of my romantic
travails
, you can go off-course pretty badly when you pursue things you want, rather than the things you need.
But meantime the story is rich in symbolic significance for the
travails
of our age.
Tata Motors
travails
with Land Rover and Jaguar spring to mind as recent less - than - favorable examples.
For the next year, the actress
travails
seemed to play out on a split screen, with tabloid stories mirroring Anistons movie titles.
Thomas Mayer , an economist at Deutsche Bank , points to anotherlesson from Japans fiscal
travails
.
The
travails
of the British car industry are seldom out of the news.
In some ways the current
travails
of Goldman Sachs (see article) epitomise the problem.