ordeal
英 [ɔː'diːəl]
美[ɔr'dil]
- n. 折磨;严酷的考验;痛苦的经验
考试真题
- 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
- Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
双语例句
- 1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The former hostage is in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal.
- 想想人质曾遭受的折磨,获救后其身体状况已经是出奇地好了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Stopping only briefly to regain her composure, she described her agonising ordeal.
- 她只停顿了一小会儿让自己恢复平静,然后讲述了她无比痛苦的经历。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Last night he relived his terrifying ordeal.
- 昨夜他又一次体验了那种可怕的折磨。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved.
- 这个仪式对于那些新近丧失亲友的人来说是一种折磨。
来自《权威词典》