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
双语例句
1. Mona remains unshaken by her ordeal and is matter-of-fact about her courage.
莫娜不为她经历的这场磨难所动，对自己表现出的勇气也态度淡然。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The former hostage is in remarkably good shape considering his ordeal.
想想人质曾遭受的折磨，获救后其身体状况已经是出奇地好了。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Stopping only briefly to regain her composure, she described her agonising ordeal.
她只停顿了一小会儿让自己恢复平静，然后讲述了她无比痛苦的经历。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Last night he relived his terrifying ordeal.
昨夜他又一次体验了那种可怕的折磨。
来自柯林斯例句
5. The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved.
这个仪式对于那些新近丧失亲友的人来说是一种折磨。
来自《权威词典》
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。
用作名词 (n.)
Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me. 在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
