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单词 purgatory
释义
purgatory
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɜː.ɡə.tər.i/us
/ˈpɝː.ɡə.tɔːr.i/
theplaceto whichRomanCatholicsbelievethat thespiritsofdeadpeoplego andsufferfor theevilactsthat they did while they werealive, before they areableto go toheaven
（天主教教义中的）炼狱，涤罪所
humorous
anextremelyunpleasantexperiencethatcausessuffering:
痛苦的经历
I've been on adietfor twoweeksnow, and it's purgatory!我已经节食两周了，真是太痛苦了！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Religious concepts: Heaven
  • Elysian
  • heaven
  • heavenly
  • high
  • on highidiom
  • paradise
  • perdition
  • the pearly gates
  • Zion

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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
(Definition ofpurgatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpurgatory

purgatory
All twelfth- and thirteenth-century theologians discussingpurgatoryagreed on certain points.
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I take line 149 to be a reference to the souls inpurgatorywho are helped by the alms of the living.
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They go throughpurgatory, with social security staff asking them why they are claiming benefit.
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The inference was that we must not complain if in these days the workers had to go through the same kind ofpurgatory.
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There may be—one does not know—a moralpurgatoryfor those who do not carry out their promises.
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As it is, many of these represent two days of completepurgatory.
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Prisons should be places for reform, not ruination; for deterrence, not degradation; for punishment, notpurgatory.
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Teaching teenagers in some schools must be difficult, and in some cases it must bepurgatory.
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We are not going from paradise topurgatory.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
From the point of view of one lawyer at least, they arepurgatory.
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He was elected in 1945 to introduce a paradise and not apurgatory.
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I understand that the alternative penalties are £500 or two years inpurgatory.
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In certain pieces of government legislation such wishes have led us at least as far aspurgatory.
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We see a world writhing, as it were, in apurgatoryof its own making.
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They believe that while his remains are in unconsecrated ground he will remain inpurgatory.
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