参考词典中ordeal的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 严酷的考验,痛苦的经验
常用短语
参考例句
- She maintained her equanimity throughout her long ordeal.
她在长期的苦难中心情一直都很平静. - Sam carried himself bravely in that ordeal.
萨姆在那次考验中表现得很勇敢。 - The hostages went through a dreadful ordeal.
个个人质都经历了可怕的折磨
- She maintained her equanimity throughout her long ordeal.
英英解释
2个名词解释
- a severe or trying experience
- 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
[同] ordeal, trial by ordeal
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