or·deal
noun/ɔːˈdiːl/, /ˈɔːdiːl/
/ɔːrˈdiːl/
[usually singular]- a difficult or unpleasant experience
磨难；折磨；煎熬；严酷的考验 - They had survived a terrifying ordeal.
他们遭受过一场可怕的磨难后幸存了下来。 - The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
面试并非如她想象的那样可怕。 - The hostages spoke openly about the terrible ordeal they had been through.
人质公开陈述了他们所遭受的非人的折磨。 - ordeal of (doing) something They are to be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
他们将免受出庭作证的难堪。
Extra Examples- She was subjected to a terrible six-day ordeal.
她经受了 6 天痛苦折磨。 - She's extremely distressed by the whole ordeal.
她对整个磨难感到非常痛苦。 - Starting at a new school can be quite an ordeal for a young child.
对于年幼的孩子来说，开始进入新学校可能是一个相当大的考验。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- long
- entire
- whole
- …
- endure
- face
- go through
- …
- ordeal of
- an ordeal at the hands of somebody
Word OriginOld English ordāl, ordēl, of Germanic origin; related to German urteilen ‘give judgement’, from a base meaning ‘share out’. The word is not found in Middle English (except once in Chaucer's Troilus); modern use of the current sense began in the mid 17th cent. - They had survived a terrifying ordeal.