ordeal是什么意思？

ordeal

英[ɔ:ˈdi:l] 美[ɔrˈdil]

• n. 严峻的考验，苦难的经验，折磨，神判法；

复数：ordeals;

例句

• 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。
• their 20-hour ordeal at the hands of a gunman 他们在持枪歹徒手中的20 小时折磨
• She wouldn't want to put them through the ordeal of a huge ceremony... 她不想让他们参加大型仪式受罪。
• It has since mutated into an annual ordeal for reputable universities. 当时,为挑出全国最好的大学,杂志向662所高校的校长发出了调查问卷.
• She drank some water nerving herself for a more terrible ordeal. 她喝了几口水,使自己镇定,准备应付一场可怕的严酷考验.
• Klein in Brazil sick Cross also experienced the ordeal. 克莱在巴西贫病交加,也历尽磨难.
• The hostages emerged from their ordeal unscathed . 各人质历尽磨难后安然生还。
• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal. 在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常.
• Mona remains unshaken by her ordeal and is matter-of-fact about her courage. 莫娜不为她经历的这场磨难所动，对自己表现出的勇气也态度淡然。
• What of the supreme measureless ordeal in which we were again irrevocably plunged? 我们重又不可挽回地被投入最大的、无限的苦难之中,这究竟是怎样的光景 呢 ?

同义词

• vt.
  ordeal的同义词之：试验;检验
  experience, trial, test,
• ordeal的同义词之：其他释义
  experience, crucible, nightmare, grief, test, weight, trial, tribulation,

英语六级真题

Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).
出自-2013年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  煎熬；磨难；折磨
  If you describe an experience or situation as an ordeal, you think it is difficult and unpleasant.
  例句
  ...the painful ordeal of the last eight months... 过去8个月的痛苦煎熬 She described her agonising ordeal. 她描述了自己备受折磨的苦难经历。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  严峻的考验；苦难的经历；磨难；折磨；煎熬；严酷的考验
  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。

英英词典释义

• 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

行业词典

• 法律： 神审；