purgatory

noun

1. 炼狱
   a place or state in which the souls of dead people suffer for the bad things they did when they were living, so that they can become pure enough to go to heaven
2. 受难的处所（或状态）；惩戒所；折磨；磨难
   any place or state of suffering
   1. 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。

1. N-PROPER （天主教中的）炼狱
   Purgatory is the place where Roman Catholics believe the spirits of dead people are sent to suffer for their sins before they go to heaven.
   1. Prayers were said for souls in Purgatory.
      祷告词是为炼狱中的灵魂念的。
2. N-UNCOUNT 受苦的经历；折磨；苦难
   You can describe a very unpleasant experience as purgatory .
   1. Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.
      最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。
   2. ...five years of economic purgatory.
      5年的经济困难

1. Prayers were said for souls in Purgatory.
   祷告词是为炼狱中的灵魂念的。
2. Every step of the last three miles was purgatory.
   最后3英里时每一步都像是受罪。
3. His experience this time was like going through purgatory, he had suffered a lot.
   他的这次经历犹如炼狱一般，饱受熬煎。
4. Through the exile, the wandering and the angst, he created The Divine Comedy divided into Hell, Purgatory and Paradise a poem many consider the greatest ever written.
   在流放、游荡和痛苦中，他创作了《神曲》，这部被很多人视为有史以来最伟大的诗篇分为《地狱》、《炼狱》和《天堂》三部。
5. Hotels are kind of like the purgatory of living arrangements.
   旅馆里的生活安排有点儿像炼狱一样。
6. 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。
7. However, it is certain that their emotions leaped the many thousands of miles that separated this place of purgatory and doom from the homes of those whom they loved.
   然而，他们的情感，这是一定的纵穿行了数千英里，这地方炼狱中分离出来，并毁坏的家园，那些从他们所爱的一样。
8. I'm not gonna drive my boat into Purgatory cove.
   我可不想把我船开进连屿湾。
9. When I allow a person to take a photograph, I tell Jesus to take one soul to Heaven out of Purgatory.
   当我允许一个人给我照相时，我告诉耶稣从炼狱中带一个人去天堂。
10. For this pious act they could obtain remission of all sins, for themselves or their relatives in purgatory.
    由于这种虔诚的行为，他们可以为自己或亲戚在炼狱中免除所有的罪过。
11. A beautiful woman be paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul, and purgatory for the purse.
    漂亮的女人是眼睛的天堂，灵魂的地狱，钱包的炼狱。
12. The priest asked the members of his congregation to pray for the souls of people in purgatory.
    神父叫他教区的信徒为炼狱中的人们的灵魂祈祷。
13. A brief description of purgatory doctrine, and some prayer language is valid and do not ask me!
    炼狱教条的一份简要说明以及一些祈祷用语别问我这是啥！
14. A prayer for the souls in purgatory.
    为炼狱中的灵魂作的祈祷。
15. Catholics believe that God uses purgatory to prepare sinful souls for the joys of heaven.
    天主教徒相信上帝令罪恶的灵魂经历炼狱的磨难是为最终享受天堂的快乐。
16. Marriage, with peace, is this world's paradise: with strife, this world's purgatory.
    和谐的婚姻，是尘世的乐园；不和谐的婚姻，则是人生的炼狱。
17. The threat of a neglected cold be for doctor what the threat of purgatory be for priest-a gold mine.
    被忽视的感冒所构成的威胁对医生来说，正如地狱所构成的威胁之对牧师&都是一座金矿。
18. This is not men's dormitory, it is the noisy paradise of women, my Purgatory.
    这不是男人们的宿舍，是女人们聒噪的天堂，我的炼狱。
19. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
    婚姻既不是天堂，也不是地狱，它不过是一个炼狱而已。
20. Of or resembling purgatory.
    有关或与炼狱相似的。
21. It was also possible that they were rejected from heaven and cast into purgatory, which is between hell and heaven.
    也可能是他们拒绝从天上及演员进入炼狱，这是地狱和天堂之间。
22. He described his experience of combat in Vietnam as sheer purgatory.
    他把自己在越南作战的经历描述为纯粹的炼狱。
23. It's going to be a season in purgatory.
    下赛季我们将度过一年的炼狱时间。
24. She fearlessly surrendered her bitter spirit unto purgatory.
    她无惧地把她的灵魂交给了魔鬼。
25. Catholics, he tells us, held that ghosts came from Purgatory and were actually souls of the departed.
    他说，天主教认为，鬼魂来自炼狱，是亡者的真正灵魂。
26. England is the paradise of women, the hell of horse, and the purgatory of servant.
    英国是女人的天堂，马的地狱，奴仆的炼狱。
27. But a funny thing happened to the Lakers on their way to purgatory.
    但是在湖人炼狱的路上发生了一件有趣的事。
28. Purgatory is a religious word which is a place for people to wash away their sins.
    炼狱是个宗教词汇，是洗脱人罪过的地方。
29. Humorous I've been on a diet for two weeks now, and it's purgatory!
    我现在已经节食两个星期，太难受了。两个星期了，太难受了！
30. The living pray on behalf of Christians who are in purgatory, the state in the afterlife where souls are purified before proceeding to heaven.
    生活祈求代表基督徒的人在炼狱中，国家在来世那里有心灵净化，然后前往天堂。

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
   1. a purgatory of drug abuse