purgatory
參見：Purgatory
英語
編輯
詞源
編輯源自拉丁語 purgātōrium (「清洗的」)。與英語 purge同源。
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編輯名詞
編輯purgatory (可數 和 不可數，複數 purgatories)
- (基督教) Purgatory (「煉獄」)的大小寫替代形式
- （尤指作為救贖的一部分所經歷的）磨難，苦痛
- 1605, Nicholas Breton, An Olde Mans Lesson, and a Young Mans Loue, London: Edward White,[1]
- […] many Gods breedeth heathens miseries, many countries trauailers humors, many wiues mens purgatories, and many friends trustes ruine:
- 1774, 約翰·伯戈因, The Maid of the Oaks, London: T. Becket, Act I, Scene 1, p. 6,[2]
- I laid my rank and fortune at the fair one’s feet, and would have married instantly; but that Oldworth opposed my precipitancy, and insisted upon a probation of six months absence—It has been a purgatory!
- 1853, 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾, 《露絲》，章節25，[3]
- It might be […] that Ruth had worked her way through the deep purgatory of repentance up to something like purity again; God only knew!
- 1904, 厄普頓·辛克萊，《屠場》，章節10，[4]
- Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.
- 1997, 約翰·馬克斯維爾·庫切，《男孩》，Penguin, Chapter 11, p. 100,[5]
- […] that would mean he would be irrecoverably Afrikaans and would have to spend years in the purgatory of an Afrikaans boarding-school, as all farm-children do, before he would be allowed to come back to the farm.
- 1605, Nicholas Breton, An Olde Mans Lesson, and a Young Mans Loue, London: Edward White,[1]
相關詞彙
編輯形容詞
編輯purgatory (比較級 more purgatory，最高級 most purgatory)
- 贖罪的
- 1600，Philemon Holland（譯者），李維所著《羅馬史》，London, Book 41, p. 1103,[6]
- Last of all, the prodigie of Siracusa was expiat by a purgatory sacrifice, by direction from the soothsaiers to what gods, supplications and sacrifice should be made.
- 1790，埃德蒙·伯克，《對法國大革命的反思》，London: J. Dodsley, p. 272,[7]
- This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a canvasser as he was a bad governor.
- 1600，Philemon Holland（譯者），李維所著《羅馬史》，London, Book 41, p. 1103,[6]