purgatory

英 [ˈpɜːɡətri]

美 [ˈpɜːrɡətɔːri]

n.  炼狱; 受难的处所(或状态); 惩戒所; 折磨; 磨难

GRE

BNC.22064 / COCA.20888

牛津词典

noun

• 炼狱
  a place or state in which the souls of dead people suffer for the bad things they did when they were living, so that they can become pure enough to go to heaven
• 受难的处所（或状态）；惩戒所；折磨；磨难
  any place or state of suffering
  1. Getting up at four o'clock every morning is sheer purgatory.
     每天早上四点起床简直是活受罪。

柯林斯词典

• N-PROPER （天主教中的）炼狱
  Purgatoryis the place where Roman Catholics believe the spirits of dead people are sent to suffer for their sins before they go to heaven.
  1. Prayers were said for souls in Purgatory.
     祷告词是为炼狱中的灵魂念的。
• N-UNCOUNT 受苦的经历；折磨；苦难
  You can describe a very unpleasant experience aspurgatory.
  1. Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.
     最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。
  2. ...five years of economic purgatory.
     5年的经济困难

英英释义

noun

• (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
• a temporary condition of torment or suffering
  1. a purgatory of drug abuse

双语例句

• However, it is certain that their emotions leaped the many thousands of miles that separated this place of purgatory and doom from the homes of those whom they loved.
  然而，他们的情感，这是一定的纵穿行了数千英里，这地方炼狱中分离出来，并毁坏的家园，那些从他们所爱的一样。
• A beautiful woman be paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul, and purgatory for the purse.
  漂亮的女人是眼睛的天堂，灵魂的地狱，钱包的炼狱。
• Marriage, with peace, is this world's paradise: with strife, this world's purgatory.
  和谐的婚姻，是尘世的乐园；不和谐的婚姻，则是人生的炼狱。
• When I allow a person to take a photograph, I tell Jesus to take one soul to Heaven out of Purgatory.
  当我允许一个人给我照相时，我告诉耶稣从炼狱中带一个人去天堂。
• The living pray on behalf of Christians who are in purgatory, the state in the afterlife where souls are purified before proceeding to heaven.
  生活祈求代表基督徒的人在炼狱中，国家在来世那里有心灵净化，然后前往天堂。
• Catholics, he tells us, held that ghosts came from Purgatory and were actually souls of the departed.
  他说，天主教认为，鬼魂来自炼狱，是亡者的真正灵魂。
• Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.
  最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
  婚姻既不是天堂，也不是地狱，它不过是一个炼狱而已。
• Each cake eaten would represent a soul being freed from Purgatory.
  据说每吃掉一个“灵魂饼”，就会有一个灵魂被从炼狱中拯救出来。
• Prayers were said for souls in Purgatory.
  祷告词是为炼狱中的灵魂念的。