travail

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

trav·ail [travail travails travailed travailing] BrE [ˈtræveɪl] NAmE [ˈtræveɪl] BrE [trəˈveɪl] NAmE [trəˈveɪl] noun uncountable, plural (old use or literary)
an unpleasant experience or situation that involves a lot of hard work, difficulties and/or suffering
•the travails of life in post-war Britain

Word Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ palus ‘stake’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, childbed, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil