英文词源
- travail (n.)
- "labor, toil," mid-13c., from Old French travail "work, labor, toil, suffering or painful effort, trouble; arduous journey" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture, torment," from Vulgar Latin *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in Late Latin trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from Latin tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria "three;" see three + palus "stake;" see pale (n.)), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from late 13c. in English, from the verb in Old French.
中文词源
travail：煎熬，痛苦，艰辛
来自古法语 travail,痛苦，煎熬，来自通俗拉丁语 tripaliare,折磨，来自拉丁语 trepalium,刑具， 一种由三根尖木桩组成的折磨工具，来自 tri-,三，词源同 three,palus,柱子，尖桩，词源同 impale,pole.
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travail：煎熬，痛苦，艰辛
来自古法语 travail,痛苦，煎熬，来自通俗拉丁语 tripaliare,折磨，来自拉丁语 trepalium,刑具， 一种由三根尖木桩组成的折磨工具，来自 tri-,三，词源同 three,palus,柱子，尖桩，词源同 impale,pole.