ordeal
煎熬,磨难,折磨,苦难
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- : any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- : a primitive form of trial to determine guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to fire, poison, or other serious danger, the result being regarded as a divine or preternatural judgment.
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Examples
After dragging it behind him with both hands, he smashes it through the rotted wood of the locked door and frees the girl, whom players of the first Little Nightmares will recognize as Six, the girl in the yellow raincoat who survived her own ordeal.
Late as I was to a story unfolding under my nose, I was disappointed that the whole ordeal lacked any immediate drama.
The Rochester community is outraged by the ordeal and is calling for all officers involved to be terminated.
Though Democrats seemed to be the most vocal during the ordeal, several Republicans also used Twitter to speak out.
While the quick action represents a victory for San Diegans’ civil rights, there are many troubling questions surrounding the ordeal that have not yet been answered – any maybe never will.
This is a new version of Catman, his past is yet to be told, but an ordeal made him not just badass, but flawed, deeply flawed.
Every visit to a hospital is an ordeal but for those who cannot pay for private care the experience is a horror show.
At no time during his ordeal was Turing able to publicly reveal the far greater secret that had framed his life since 1940.
Yet the entire ordeal opened up so many new possibilities, both for Dr. Grenci and those who followed her case.
“The whole ordeal gave me a thicker skin,” she said, reflecting on the incident.