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
ordeal的用法和樣例:
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Through this ordeal Heng lay stiff and silent. 在這個嚴酷的考驗中,恆一直僵硬地躺著,默不作聲。
Once there we saw that the ordeal must have been great. 從前我們覺得嚴酷的考驗一定是很偉大的。
I'd hate to go through such a terrible ordeal again. 我不想再受這種痛苦的經驗。
Excessive choices quickly stop being a benefit and become an ordeal. 過多的選擇很快就喪失了它的優勢,而成為一種痛苦的經驗。