purgatory

purgatory音标

英 [ˈpɜ:gətri]

美 [ˈpɜ:rgətɔ:ri]

purgatory基本释义

n.灵魂的净化；涤罪；炼狱

adj.涤罪的

purgatory用法及例句

noun

1. (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

2. a temporary condition of torment or suffering

e.g. a purgatory of drug abuse

1. （天主教中的）炼狱Purgatory is the place where Roman Catholics believe the spirits of dead people are sent to sufferfor their sins before they go to heaven.

purgatory

e.g. Prayers were said for souls in Purgatory.祷告词是为炼狱中的灵魂念的。

2. 受苦的经历；折磨；苦难You can describe a very unpleasant experience as purgatory .

purgatory的近义词

e.g. Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.*后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。e.g. ...five years of economic purgatory.5年的经济困难

1. purgatory

1. 涤罪：宝血自耶稣身上分离出来时,常常是以血滴的方式表现,信徒在冥想之中热切向往血滴,狂热地计算血滴数量,象徵他们主动、积极地追求涤罪(purgatory),并且将血滴视为救赎的计价单位.

2. (炼狱和天堂)：a tale of two cities(双城记) | THE VISION OR, HELL,PURGATORY, AND PARADISE(炼狱和天堂) | THE DIVINE COMEDY(神曲)

3. 炼狱,涤罪所：heaven 天 | purgatory 炼狱,涤罪所 | hell 地狱

Purgatory was a kind of penitential transit camp on the way to the gates of Heaven.

出自：D. Lodge

近义词

临近词

anguish苦闷

hell地狱

torment苦痛

torture拷问

despair绝望

agony极度的痛苦

limbo林波舞(西印度群岛的一种...

suffering痛苦

purge

pure

相关列句

Each cake eaten would represent a soul being freed from Purgatory.(据说每吃掉一个“灵魂饼”，就会有一个灵魂被从炼狱中拯救出来。)

Our Father who art in purgatory.(我们在炼狱中的父亲。)

Text purgatory is the mental suffering you go through when you are waiting for a response to a flirtatious text.(给心仪的人发了邀约短信后，在等待对方回复的那段时间里所经历的那种焦急等待的煎熬就叫textpurgatory（暂译“等短信的煎熬”）。)

Although it’s highly unlikely your results well be positive, those two weeks are like purgatory.(尽管检测结果是阳性的可能性极小，这两周的时间也绝对像是炼狱。)

There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.(既没有关于炼狱这个词，也没有炼狱这回事；在这段经文中没有，在其他经文中也没有。)

Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.(*后三英里中的每一步都是炼狱般的折磨。)

Now that the producers have said it's not purgatory, do you have a new theory?(现在制作人已经否认了这个说法，那你有什么新的猜想了吗？)

Marriage , with peace, is this world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory .(和睦的婚姻，是这个世界的乐园；对抗的婚姻，是这个世界的炼狱。)

Also, after a group of victims unconscious and taken to a purgatory of them.(又一群受害者在失去知觉之后，带到了一个炼狱当中。)

It functions as a sort of mid-life purgatory for hopeless souls on Earth.(它的职能作为一种中年炼狱为无可救药的灵魂在地球上。)