purgatory是什么意思_purgatory的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.

最后三英里中的每一步都是炼狱般的折磨。
Prayers were said for souls in purgatory.

为炼狱中的亡灵做的祷告。
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。
Our Father who art in purgatory.

我们在炼狱中的父亲。
It can feel like purgatory.

感觉就像在炼狱一样。

近义词

purification

adj.

purificatory

同根词

词根 purgatory

purgative adj. 净化的；通便的；赎罪的 n. 泻剂，泻药
purgatorial adj. 炼狱的；涤罪的
purification n. 净化；提纯；涤罪

释义

(in Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven

（天主教教义）炼狱。

[mass noun]mental anguish or suffering

（精神上的）痛苦（或苦楚）

this was purgatory, worse than anything she'd faced in her life.

　这是她有生以来遭遇的最糟糕的精神折磨。

adj.

archaic having the quality of cleansing or purifying

〈古〉清洗的；清除的；净化的

infernal punishments are purgatory and medicinal.

地狱的惩罚既有涤罪又有药到病除的作用。

词源

"Middle English： from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter （used as a noun） of late Latin purgatorius ‘purifying', from the verb purgare （see PURGE）."