Ordeal

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) a severe or trying experience.

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• Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was a trial by ordeal. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the disagreeable ordeal could not be dodged. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But in the stress of this ordeal, Gerald too lost his hold on the outer, daily life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Sustain me through the ordeal I dread and must undergo! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Not far from the limit of impecuniosity was Edison himself, as he landed in Boston in 1868 after this wintry ordeal. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Good, bad, or indifferent, she said, the pupil's sketches must pass through the fiery ordeal of the master's judgment--and there's an end of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We talked a little; but both our minds were preoccupied by the coming ordeal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He has fought successfully two contested elections, and has come out of the ordeal unscathed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The next domestic trial we went through, was the Ordeal of Servants. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He watched tearlessly--ordeals that he exacted should be passed through--fearlessly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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