ordeals是什么意思？

ordeals

• n. 严峻的考验，苦难的经历( ordeal的名词复数 )；

例句

• The youths were initiated into manhood by the most frightful ordeals imaginable. 青年人要经受难以想像的严峻考验才能被承认进入成年期.
• He's come through some bad personal ordeals. 他个人经历了一些沉痛的考验.
• London had stood triumphant through all her ordeals. 伦敦在经历考验之后仍巍然屹立.

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。