ordeal
ordeal 英 [ɔ:ˈdi:l] 美 [ɔrˈdil]
n. 折磨；煎熬
名词复数:ordeals
- An ordeal is something difficult or painful to go through. Something kind of hard like taking a test can be an ordeal, but often an ordeal is a serious and long-lasting event, like an illness or tragedy.
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- n. 折磨；煎熬
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1. They are to be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
他们将免受出庭作证的难堪。
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2. The hostages spoke openly about the terrible ordeal they had been through.
人质公开陈述了他们所遭受的非人的折磨。
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3. The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
面试并非如她想像的那样可怕。
- ordeal (n.) Old English ordel, ordal, "trial by physical test," literally "judgment, verdict," from Proto-Germanic noun *uz-dailjam (source also of 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.
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