ordeal
n. 折磨；严酷的考验；痛苦的经验
n.
严峻的考验；苦难的经验；折磨；神判法
变形
复数：ordeals
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]严峻的考验；苦难的经历 a difficult or painful experience
英英释义
ordeal[ ɔ:'di:l, 'ɔ:di:l ]
n.
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
同义词：trial by ordeal
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
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。
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。
I'd hate to go through such a terrible ordeal again.
我不想再受这种痛苦的经验。
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。
权威例句
Ordeal by fire : the Civil War and ReconstructionSHOTGUN ORDEAL IN CITY ROBBERY; Staff Face Armed Raider
An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era
An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. (Book)
Employment, Income, and the Ordeal of the Negro Family
ORDEAL MECHANISMS IN TARGETING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT IN INDONESIA
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace
Ordeals for the fetal programming hypothesis : The hypothesis largely survives one ordeal but not another
The field trial: some thoughts on the indispensable ordeal.
Rites of Passage in Initial Teacher Training: Ritual, performance, ordeal and Numeracy Skills Test
ordeal
ordeal: [OE] The ‘meting out of judgement’ is the etymological notion immediately underlying ordeal, but at a more primitive level still than that it denotes simply ‘distribution, giving out shares’. It comes ultimately from prehistoric Germanic *uzdailjan ‘share out’, a compound verb formed from *uz- ‘out’ and *dailjan, ancestor of English deal.The noun derived from this was *uzdailjam, and it came to be used over the centuries for the ‘handing out of judgements’ (modern German urteil, for instance, means among other things ‘judicial verdict or sentence’). Its Old English descendant, ordāl, denoted specifically a ‘trial in which a person’s guilt or innocence were determined by a hazardous physical test, such as holding on to red-hot iron’, but the metaphorical extension to any ‘trying experience’ did not take place until as recently as the mid-17th century.=> deal
ordeal (n.)
Old English ordel, ordal, "trial by physical test," literally "judgment, verdict," from Proto-Germanic noun *uz-dailjam (cognates: Old Saxon urdeli, Old Frisian urdel, Dutch oordeel, German urteil "judgment"), literally "that which is dealt out" (by the gods), from *uzdailijan "share out," related to Old English adælan "to deal out" (see deal (n.1)). Curiously absent in Middle English, and perhaps reborrowed 16c. from Medieval Latin or Middle French, which got it from Germanic. The notion is of the kind of arduous physical test (such as walking blindfolded and barefoot between red-hot plowshares) that was believed to determine a person's guilt or innocence by immediate judgment of the deity, an ancient Teutonic mode of trial. English retains a more exact sense of the word; its cognates in German, etc., have been generalized. Metaphoric extension to "anything which tests character or endurance" is attested from 1650s. The prefix or- survives in English only in this word, but was common in Old English and other Germanic languages (Gothic ur-, Old Norse or-, etc.) and originally was an adverb and preposition meaning "out."
1. Bertha had been awaiting, with great discomfort, the necessary ordeal.
伯莎一直忐忑不安地等待着这无可避免的难熬的时刻。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. The parents went through a terrible ordeal when their child was kidnapped.
当孩子遭到绑架时,父母亲经受了一次可怕的折磨。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. His courage was severely tried by his ordeal.
他的勇气在艰难困苦中经受了严峻的考验.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. As darkness fell this long and very tiring ordeal, we sailed for Scapa.
经过这次长时间的、令人非常疲倦的跋涉后，我们在暮色苍茫中启程向长帕湾驶去。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. 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。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
7. I expect it to be quite an ordeal.
可以预料，那将是非常艰苦的磨练。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. This cumulative testing is seen as part of current work, a cross-check and not a ritual ordeal.
这种累积的测验被认为是通常作业的一部分，是一种反复核对而不是拘泥于仪式的严峻考验。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. This time, unlike the first, the birth was an ordeal.
与头胎不同，这次是难产。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. The ordeal of virture is to resist all temptation to evil.
德性的磨炼是抵制罪恶的诱惑。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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