ordeal

• For her to have survived such an ordeal was remarkable .
  她居然能经得起这种磨难，真了不起。
• Bertha had been awaiting, with great discomfort, the necessary ordeal .
  伯莎一直忐忑不安地等待着这无可避免的难熬的时刻。
• She drank some water nerving herself for a more terrible ordeal .
  她喝了几口水，使自己镇定，准备应付一场可怕的严酷考验。
• Dining in a room with four hundred girls is an ordeal when you are tired .
  疲劳的时候与四百个姑娘在一个餐厅吃饭真是受罪。
• What of the supreme measureless ordeal in which we were again irrevocably plunged ?
  我们重又不可挽回地被投入最大的、无限的苦难之中，这究竟是怎样的光景呢？
• He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away .
  他经历了一场苦难深重的折磨，这场折磨给予他的比它所带走的更多。
• He showd a taste and talent also for danger and extremism, for heterodoxy, for ordeals .
  他对威胁凶险、极端主义，对异端邪说，对酷刑苛判也表现出极大的兴趣和才华。
• It was better, bundy thought, to let the president have a night sleep in preparation for the ordeal ahead .
  邦迪认为，最好让总统睡上一宿，以便迎接前面的严酷考验。
• Nor was the long-drawn ordeal of the condemned cell inflicted either upon the condemned man or his gaolers once upon a time .
  从前，死囚和看守都没有受到死牢的长期折磨。
• This cumulative testing is seen as part of current work, a cross-check and not a ritual ordeal .
  这种累积的测验被认为是通常作业的一部分，是一种反复核对而不是拘泥于仪式的严峻考验。