| 词汇 | ordeal |
| 释义 | ordeal noun[ C ] uk /ɔːˈdɪəl/ us /ɔːrˈdɪəl/ C2 a very unpleasant and painful or difficult experience: 磨难；苦难；严峻考验；煎熬 The hostages' ordeal came to an end when soldiers stormed the building.士兵们突袭那栋大楼后，人质们的苦难终于结束了。 in the past, a way of trying to find out if someone is guilty or innocent by making them suffer extreme pain. If they did not die, this was considered proof from God that they were innocent: Prior to the twelfth century the judicial ordeal was a pervasive mode of proof. When he declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophecies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested and hanged. She looked pale and drawn after her ordeal.磨难过后，她脸色苍白而憔悴。 He made little of his ordeal.他对自己的不愉快经历没太在意。 I'm sorry to put you through this ordeal.让你受这种煎熬，我很抱歉。 The love of my family and friends sustained me through my ordeal.家人和朋友的爱支撑着我渡过了难关。 Throughout the ordeal of her husband's funeral, she was a model of self-control . Fifty people were accused of stealing the king's deer, and required to prove their innocence by undergoing the ordeal of hot iron. Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic half nelson hardness have a bumpy rideidiom pall purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom ordeal | American Dictionaryordeal noun[ C ] us/ɔrˈdil, -di·əl/ an experience that is very painful, difficult, or tiring: Her seven-month stay in the hospital was quite an ordeal. Examples of ordealordeal It has survived its ordeals and come a long way. A comprehensive assessment of the repressive force of the law of libel must take these ordeals into account. Thus, frightening and physically painful ordeals, such as those endured in rites of passage, will impact memory and belief. The ordeal carried no association of degradation despite its often painful nature. But only divine power could explain her triumph in this ultimate ordeal. But it has safely survived the ordeal of renewing subscriptions. Once the champion had ritually offered his body as the vehicle for truth, the ordeal was expected to work. It took herculean efforts to survive the ordeal of fighting in such inhospitable space. Disputed accusations of witchcraft could only be settled by ordeal and always resulted in enslavement. But still the overwhelming majority of ordeals used the human body in a manner that tested also its pain endurance. From this perspective, ritual specialists who found judicial evidence in the suspect's body through ordeal or autopsy illustrated the monstrous, regressive state of local politics. Tamino awaits the last difficult trial, an ordeal that must be overcome. Even defendants who were ultimately acquitted had to pass through ordeals of legal intimidation that often left mental and financial scars. To reflect pregnancy and childbirth, the simile would have to include an additional and more traumatic ordeal at the end of the nine months. Determining her motif, she determines the nature of her trial, an ordeal by battle. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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