🔍 牛津詞典 🎯
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 22064 COCA: 20888

purgatory

noun
/ˈpɜːɡətri/
/ˈpɜːrɡətɔːri/
[uncountable]
jump to other results
  1. (usually Purgatory)
    (in Roman Catholic teaching天主教教义) 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炼狱
  2. (informal, humorous) any place or state in which somebody suffers受难的处所(或状态);惩戒所;折磨;磨难
    • Getting up at four every morning is sheer purgatory.每天早上四点起床简直是炼狱。
    compare hell (2)
  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French purgatorie or medieval Latin purgatorium, neuter (used as a noun) of late Latin purgatorius ‘purifying’, from the verb purgare ‘purify’, from purus ‘pure’.

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 牛津詞典 📚 – oxford.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime