travail

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

tra·vail (trə-vālʹ, trăvʹāl')n.
1. Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See Synonyms at work.
2. Tribulation or agony; anguish.
3. The labor of childbirth.intr.v. tra·vailed, tra·vail·ing, tra·vails
1. To work strenuously; toil.
2. To be in the labor of childbirth. [Middle English, from Old French, from travailler, to work hard, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, to torture with a tripalium, from Late Latin tripālium, instrument of torture, probably from Latin tripālis, having three stakes : tri-, tri- + pālus, stake; See pag- in Indo-European Roots.]

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