ordeal

英 [ɔː'diːl] 美 [ɔːr'diːl]

• n. 严酷的考验；痛苦的经验；神裁法

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]严峻的考验；苦难的经历

   a difficult or painful experience

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 折磨
2. 神裁法
3. 严峻考验
4. 苦难
5. 严酷的考验
6. 磨难
7. 煎熬
8. 苦难的经历
9. 试罪法
10. 苦难的经验
11. 跋涉
12. 难关
13. 受罪
14. 苦差事
15. 考验
16. 磨练
17. 严酷考验
18. 酷刑苛判
19. 难产
20. 痛苦的经验

英英释义

Noun:

1. a severe or trying experience

2. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Through this ordeal Heng lay stiff and silent.
   在这个严酷的考验中，恒一直僵硬地躺着，默不作声。
2. Once there we saw that the ordeal must have been great.
   从前我们觉得严酷的考验一定是很伟大的。
3. I'd hate to go through such a terrible ordeal again.
   我不想再受这种痛苦的经验。
4. Excessive choices quickly stop being a benefit and become an ordeal.
   过多的选择很快就丧失了它的优势，而成为一种痛苦的经验。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.
   在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

经典引文

• I kept dreading the ordeal of standing on the stage of Festival Hall.

  出自： N. Sedaka

• The freezing journey home at night..had been one of his worst ordeals.

  出自： M. Moorcock

近反义词

【近义词】

• trial 审讯
• test 考验
• experience 经验
• nightmare 恶梦
• tribulation 苦难
• crucible 柑锅
• grief 悲痛
• weight 重量
• torment 苦痛
• suffering 痛苦
• trouble 困难
• affliction 痛苦
• trial by ordeal 神断法