Word · Frequency #7664
ordeal
磨难；痛苦的经历；严峻的考验
A painful or trying experience
- 1.
A painful or trying experience.
痛苦或艰难的经历。
- 2.
a severe or trying experience
严峻或考验人的经历
- 3.
The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
毒性考验豆或卡拉巴豆。
- 4.
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
通过让被告接受危险或痛苦的测试来判断其有罪或无罪的原始方法；逃脱通常被视为无罪的标志
神判法；神明裁判；卡拉巴豆；毒扁豆；痛苦或艰难的经历。；严峻或考验人的经历；毒性考验豆或卡拉巴豆。
In use
The long flight with two crying babies was a real ordeal for everyone on the plane.
She described the job interview as an ordeal because the questions were so difficult.
After the ordeal, he needed a week of rest to recover.
go through an ordeal
She went through a terrible ordeal.
她经历了一场可怕的磨难。
endure an ordeal
They endured a long ordeal.
他们忍受了长时间的煎熬。
put someone through an ordeal
常用于被动结构：be put through an ordeal
Connections
Collocations
- terrible ordeal
- 可怕的考验
- She went through a terrible ordeal after the accident.事故后她经历了一场可怕的考验。
- painful ordeal
- 痛苦的经历
- The divorce was a painful ordeal for everyone involved.离婚对所有相关的人来说都是一次痛苦的经历。
- long ordeal
- 漫长的煎熬
- The family endured a long ordeal while waiting for news.家人在等待消息时经历了漫长的煎熬。
- emotional ordeal
- 情感上的折磨
- Telling the truth was an emotional ordeal for him.说出真相对他来说是一种情感上的折磨。
- survive an ordeal
- 经受住考验
- Only a few managed to survive the ordeal.只有少数人经受住了这次考验。
- go through an ordeal
Learner notes
Memory Tip
ordeal 可拆为 'or deal'，记住：'要么是deal（交易），要么是ordeal（煎熬）'
Context & Register
正式/书面; 严酷考验的经历
Pronunciation & Spelling
All listed words rhyme with 'deal' (ending /iːl/). Note that words like 'cereal' and 'ideal' share the spelling '-eal' but have different vowel sounds.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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