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japint

A future father could feel the travail from wife..

junli

travail

\truh-VAYL; TRAV-ayl\ , noun:
1.Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion.
2.Agony; anguish.
3.The labor of childbirthintransitive
verb: 1.To work very hard; to toil.
2.To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
名词 n. [U]
1.艰苦劳动,辛勤工作
my literary travail
我的辛勤的文学创作
2.痛苦,艰难
3.【医】分娩;分娩的阵痛

Quotes:
For all his travails and tragedy, he remains boyishly delighted with all life has to offer.
~F. Kathleen Foley, "Kron Returns With Spirited, Touching 'Ride' About Family", Los AngelesTimes, January 20, 2000
Every sport entails physical and mental travail, but the decathlon is a veritable factory of pain.
~Rafer Johnson with Philip Goldberg, The Best That I Can Be
The author of the Book of Jeremiah, for example, notes the "cry of a woman in travail, the anguish of one bringing forth her first child, gasping for breath, stretching out her hands crying 'Woe is me!'"
~Donald Caton, What a Blessing She Had Chloroform

Origin:
Travail is from Old French traveillier, travaillier, from Vulgar Latin tripalium, "a three-staked instrument of torture," from Latin tripalis, "three-staked," from tri-, "three" + palus, "a stake."