travail in Chinese
travail in Chinese is 工作, 出生 — travail means hard, exhausting effort that involves suffering or hardship.
travail in Chinese
工作
Pronounced: gōng zuò
(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. [from 13th c.]
出生
Pronounced: chū shēng
Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
What does "travail" mean?
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noun Hard, exhausting effort that involves suffering or hardship.
"And the British mandarin Left, like their contemporaries in the Foreign Office, had little time for the travails of the small countries between Germany and Russia, whom they had always regarded as something of a nuisance."
- noun The pain and effort of giving birth.
- noun Work, especially of a physical kind.
- noun The blocking of light from a star, planet or moon by another body passing in front of it.
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travail in a sentence
- And the British mandarin Left, like their contemporaries in the Foreign Office, had little time for the travails of the small countries between Germany and Russia, whom they had always regarded as something of a nuisance.
- Volkswagen’s travails are symbolic of the nation’s overall economic malaise and a political crisis that collapsed the government in December, paving the way for early elections Feb. 23.
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What is "travail" in Chinese?
"travail" in Chinese is 工作, 出生. travail means: Hard, exhausting effort that involves suffering or hardship.
How do you pronounce 工作?
"travail" in Chinese is 工作, pronounced "gōng zuò".
Are there other ways to say "travail" in Chinese?
Yes — Chinese has 2 translations listed for "travail": 工作, 出生.
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