purgatory
美 [?p?rɡ??t?ri] 
英 [?p??(r)ɡ?t(?)ri]
- n.煉獄；受難的處所（或狀態）；懲戒所；折磨
- adj.洗清的；凈化的；滌罪的
- 網絡煉獄之城；暫時的苦難；煉獄說
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 煉獄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. |
受難的處所（或狀態）；懲戒所；折磨；磨難any place or state of suffering |
| Getting up at four o'clock every morning is sheer purgatory. 每天早上四點起床簡直是活受罪。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Some people talk of marriage as a safe haven, heaven even, but for me it has turned out to be nothing less than purgatory here on earth.
有的人說婚姻是安全的避難所，甚至說是天堂，但對于我來說，它簡直是地球上的煉獄。
Everyone rejoices in the delights of this paradise, but I feel as if I am visiting purgatory.
每個人都在享受著此處天堂般的欣喜，但是，我感覺似乎正在煉獄中。
She confesses that she was his purgatory on Earth, always trying to make him jealous.
她承認過去她曾是他在世上的苦難，因為她常做一些讓他忌妒的事。
The next day, a strong earthquake, a huge volcanic eruption in front of a familiar home to become a human purgatory.
第二天，強烈的地震、巨大的火山爆發讓眼前熟悉的家園變成了人間煉獄。
The official White House forecast shows a nation stuck in purgatory for a prolonged period, with high unemployment persisting for years.
白宮的官方預測顯示經濟處于衰退的時間會更長，高失業率的現象會持續多年。
There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.
既沒有關于煉獄這個詞，也沒有煉獄這回事；在這段經文中沒有，在其他經文中也沒有。
Hell, purgatory , and heaven seem to differ the same as despair, fear, and assurance of salvation.
地獄、煉獄和天堂看起來似乎相異，如同絕望、憂懼和拯救的確據。
A strong earthquake with large meteor crashed, let the home becomes a familiar sight human purgatory.
強烈的地震伴隨大量隕石的墜落，讓眼前熟悉的家園變成了人間煉獄。
It seems as though for the souls in purgatory fear should necessarily decrease and love increase.
這看起來就似乎是在滌罪之中的靈魂，憂懼應該是必需減少而愛[才]增加。
And yet Asia was bliss compared with the purgatory back home.
然而相比國內的煉獄，奧巴馬的亞洲之行仿佛置身天堂。
Valuations for these developers are already low. But an extended stay in purgatory, rather than a quick bounce back to heaven, lies ahead.
這些開發商的估值已經很低。但擺在前面的不是馬上返回天堂，而是在地獄里繼續呆一段時間。
When I allow a person to take a photograph, I tell Jesus to take one soul to Heaven out of Purgatory.
當我允許一個人給我照相時，我告訴耶穌從煉獄中帶一個人去天堂。
As a matter of fact, the pope remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to canon law, they should have paid in this life.
如同事實上的事情，教宗赦免滌罪中的靈魂無罪，因根據教義上的法規，他們應已在生命中付出代價。
Doctors and patients are enduring furnace in purgatory of quality, and must shake hands together to enter the heaven of quality.
醫患在質量煉獄中經受磨煉，真心攜手才能雙雙進入質量的天堂。
Instead, it is actually a purgatory of limitless wanting, made up of over shopping, eating, traveling and working.
然而，那卻是一個漫無止境的欲求，由過度的購物，飲食，旅游，和工作而組成的欲求。
As night fell and All Souls' Day arrived, "bells were rung for the souls in purgatory, " writes Rogers.
夜晚降臨，萬靈節到來，“鈴聲為受難的靈魂敲響”，羅杰斯寫到。
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctor what the threat of purgatory is for priest.
對感冒敷衍了事構成的威脅對于醫生來說，正如對牧師而言地獄對他所構成的威脅。
WHILE the Arab spring unfolds all round them, the (mostly Persian) citizens of Iran seem condemned to a lonely purgatory.
雖然阿拉伯之春來到了周邊國家，但是伊朗人民（大部分都是波斯人）卻獨自身處煉獄。
I am neither in London nor in Libya. Purgatory.
我既不在倫敦也不是在利比亞，而是在煉獄中。
The beauty is a paradise to eyes, is a hell to mind, to purse rightness to say that is a purgatory.
美人對眼睛來說是極樂世界，對心靈來說是地獄，對腰包對來說是煉獄。
There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.
既沒有關于煉獄這個詞，也沒有煉獄這回事；在這段經文中沒有，在其他經文中也沒有。
Suffocated , Hyonblud, Spirit Trace, Purgatory, Zhoujia, Black Wings, Moon Sacrifice Raping Corpse, Autopsy, Wrath of Despot, The Believers.
窒息，血腥高潮，靈跡，煉獄，甲胄，黑翼，祭月*尸，解剖，暴君之狂怒。
A beautiful woman is paradise for the eyes, hell for the soul , and purgatory for the purse.
美貌女子是眼睛的天堂、靈魂的地獄和錢包的煉獄。
Although it's highly unlikely your results well be positive, those two weeks are like purgatory.
盡管檢測結果是陽性的可能性極小，這兩周的時間也絕對像是煉獄。
Olson describes it as "a kind of sexual purgatory, " and many turn to drugs and alcohol for solace.
歐森把它形容成一種“性的苦海”，很多人會因此從毒品和酒精里尋求安慰。
He's so impatient that waiting in a queue is sheer purgatory for him!
他毫無耐性，對他來說排隊等候完全是活受罪！
You suck. Please don't ruin Star Trek by ending it in Klingon purgatory.
你太爛了。請不要玷污了《星際迷航》，把結局搞在克林貢人的煉獄。
As late as 1582, one map of the world went further, depicting the sites of Judgment, Purgatory and the outer and inner circles of Hell.
直到1582年，地圖才進一步地將審判所——煉獄、地獄的外層和內層描繪出來。
By the end an unknown cast has become a trio of indelible faces, a patch of land a glimpse of purgatory.
最終，不知名的演員們化作了3張不可磨滅的面孔，而這塊土地成為了對煉獄的一瞥。
For this pious act they could obtain remission of all sins, for themselves or their relatives in purgatory.
由于這種虔誠的行為，他們可以為自己或親戚在煉獄中免除所有的罪過。
Before Iran reaches paradise, a spell in purgatory beckons.
在伊朗成為人間天堂以前，它先要經過一條漫長的煉獄之路。
But a funny thing happened to the Lakers on their way to purgatory.
但是在湖人煉獄的路上發生了一件有趣的事。
Her world suddenly become cruel purgatory.
她的世界瞬間變成殘酷的煉獄。
Husband von from from that for purgatory released.
丈夫馮矬子從那苦熬的煉獄中獲釋了。
Mr Murdoch may yet find that purgatory is the easy bit.
但默多克或許會發現，這還不是最難的。
Souls in purgatory, who are members of the church just like living Christians, must suffer so that they can be purged of their sins.
心靈煉獄，他們是教會成員一樣生活基督徒要這么辛苦，他們可以抵償自己的罪孽。
Souls are so purified in purgatory.
人的靈魂將在煉獄中得到凈化。
Pray for the Souls in Purgatory!
為煉獄的靈魂祈禱！
How can we help the souls in Purgatory ?
我們能怎麼救助煉獄靈魂呢？
Or was purgatory the right word?
或者受難地是那個正確的詞？
Those tares of changing the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory were evidently sown while the bishops slept [Matt. 13: 25].
這些將教義上的懲罰改變成為求滌罪的懲罰的稗子們，顯然地趁著主教睡著時播種（太13：25）。
