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go through an ordeal
She went through a terrible ordeal.
她经历了一场可怕的磨难。
磨难；痛苦的经历；严峻的考验
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磨难；痛苦的经历；严峻的考验
A painful or trying experience
She went through a terrible ordeal.
她经历了一场可怕的磨难。
痛苦或艰难的经历。
A painful or trying experience.
严峻或考验人的经历
a severe or trying experience
毒性考验豆或卡拉巴豆。
The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean.
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
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
The long flight with two crying babies was a real ordeal for everyone on the plane.
带着两个哭闹的婴儿长途飞行对飞机上的每个人来说都是一次真正的磨难。
She described the job interview as an ordeal because the questions were so difficult.
她形容那次求职面试是一场磨难，因为问题太难了。
After the ordeal, he needed a week of rest to recover.
经历那场磨难之后，他需要休息一周才能恢复。
She went through a terrible ordeal.
她经历了一场可怕的磨难。
They endured a long ordeal.
他们忍受了长时间的煎熬。
常用于被动结构：be put through an ordeal
The exam put the students through an ordeal.
考试让学生们经历了一次严峻考验。
Not this
He ordealed the test.
Use this
He went through an ordeal in the test.
错误：将名词 'ordeal' 误用作动词。正确用法是使用 'go through an ordeal' 或 'experience an ordeal'。
Not this
He had much ordeal in his life.
Use this
He had many ordeals in his life.
错误：将可数名词 'ordeal' 当作不可数名词使用。应使用复数 'ordeals' 或修饰词 'many'。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
经历煎熬
We all had to go through the ordeal of the exam.
我们都不得不经历考试的煎熬。
经历严峻考验
She went through a terrible ordeal during the surgery.
她在手术期间经历了可怕的痛苦经历。
使某人经受严峻考验
The job interview put me through an ordeal.
那次求职面试让我经受了一场严峻考验。
发长 /iː/ 音 (如 sea, tea)
Same pattern, same sound
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ordeal 可拆为 'or deal'，记住：'要么是deal（交易），要么是ordeal（煎熬）'
正式/书面; 严酷考验的经历
All listed words rhyme with 'deal' (ending /iːl/). Note that words like 'cereal' and 'ideal' share the spelling '-eal' but have different vowel sounds.
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