purgatory
美 [ˈpɜrɡəˌtɔri] 
英 [ˈpɜː(r)ɡət(ə)ri]
- n.炼狱；受难的处所（或状态）；惩戒所；折磨
- adj.洗清的；净化的；涤罪的
- 网络炼狱之城；暂时的苦难；炼狱说
同义词
英汉双解
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 |
| 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。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
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.
有的人说婚姻是安全的避难所，甚至说是天堂，但对于我来说，它简直是地球上的炼狱。
Everyone rejoices in the delights of this paradise, but I feel as if I am visiting purgatory.
每个人都在享受着此处天堂般的欣喜，但是，我感觉似乎正在炼狱中。
She confesses that she was his purgatory on Earth, always trying to make him jealous.
她承认过去她曾是他在世上的苦难，因为她常做一些让他忌妒的事。
The next day, a strong earthquake, a huge volcanic eruption in front of a familiar home to become a human purgatory.
第二天，强烈的地震、巨大的火山爆发让眼前熟悉的家园变成了人间炼狱。
The official White House forecast shows a nation stuck in purgatory for a prolonged period, with high unemployment persisting for years.
白宫的官方预测显示经济处于衰退的时间会更长，高失业率的现象会持续多年。
There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.
既没有关于炼狱这个词，也没有炼狱这回事；在这段经文中没有，在其他经文中也没有。
Hell, purgatory , and heaven seem to differ the same as despair, fear, and assurance of salvation.
地狱、炼狱和天堂看起来似乎相异，如同绝望、忧惧和拯救的确据。
A strong earthquake with large meteor crashed, let the home becomes a familiar sight human purgatory.
强烈的地震伴随大量陨石的坠落，让眼前熟悉的家园变成了人间炼狱。
It seems as though for the souls in purgatory fear should necessarily decrease and love increase.
这看起来就似乎是在涤罪之中的灵魂，忧惧应该是必需减少而爱[才]增加。
And yet Asia was bliss compared with the purgatory back home.
然而相比国内的炼狱，奥巴马的亚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.
这些开发商的估值已经很低。但摆在前面的不是马上返回天堂，而是在地狱里继续呆一段时间。
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。
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.
如同事实上的事情，教宗赦免涤罪中的灵魂无罪，因根据教义上的法规，他们应已在生命中付出代价。
Doctors and patients are enduring furnace in purgatory of quality, and must shake hands together to enter the heaven of quality.
医患在质量炼狱中经受磨炼，真心携手才能双双进入质量的天堂。
Instead, it is actually a purgatory of limitless wanting, made up of over shopping, eating, traveling and working.
然而，那却是一个漫无止境的欲求，由过度的购物，饮食，旅游，和工作而组成的欲求。
As night fell and All Souls' Day arrived, "bells were rung for the souls in purgatory, " writes Rogers.
夜晚降临，万灵节到来，“铃声为受难的灵魂敲响”，罗杰斯写到。
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctor what the threat of purgatory is for priest.
对感冒敷衍了事构成的威胁对于医生来说，正如对牧师而言地狱对他所构成的威胁。
WHILE the Arab spring unfolds all round them, the (mostly Persian) citizens of Iran seem condemned to a lonely purgatory.
虽然阿拉伯之春来到了周边国家，但是伊朗人民（大部分都是波斯人）却独自身处炼狱。
I am neither in London nor in Libya. Purgatory.
我既不在伦敦也不是在利比亚，而是在炼狱中。
The beauty is a paradise to eyes, is a hell to mind, to purse rightness to say that is a purgatory.
美人对眼睛来说是极乐世界，对心灵来说是地狱，对腰包对来说是炼狱。
There is neither the word nor the thing of purgatory, neither in this nor any other text.
既没有关于炼狱这个词，也没有炼狱这回事；在这段经文中没有，在其他经文中也没有。
Suffocated , Hyonblud, Spirit Trace, Purgatory, Zhoujia, Black Wings, Moon Sacrifice Raping Corpse, Autopsy, Wrath of Despot, The Believers.
窒息，血腥高潮，灵迹，炼狱，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、灵魂的地狱和钱包的炼狱。
Although it's highly unlikely your results well be positive, those two weeks are like purgatory.
尽管检测结果是阳性的可能性极小，这两周的时间也绝对像是炼狱。
Olson describes it as "a kind of sexual purgatory, " and many turn to drugs and alcohol for solace.
欧森把它形容成一种“性的苦海”，很多人会因此从毒品和酒精里寻求安慰。
He's so impatient that waiting in a queue is sheer purgatory for him!
他毫无耐性，对他来说排队等候完全是活受罪！
You suck. Please don't ruin Star Trek by ending it in Klingon purgatory.
你太烂了。请不要玷污了《星际迷航》，把结局搞在克林贡人的炼狱。
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，地图才进一步地将审判所——炼狱、地狱的外层和内层描绘出来。
By the end an unknown cast has become a trio of indelible faces, a patch of land a glimpse of purgatory.
最终，不知名的演员们化作了3张不可磨灭的面孔，而这块土地成为了对炼狱的一瞥。
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。
Before Iran reaches paradise, a spell in purgatory beckons.
在伊朗成为人间天堂以前，它先要经过一条漫长的炼狱之路。
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。
Her world suddenly become cruel purgatory.
她的世界瞬间变成残酷的炼狱。
Husband von from from that for purgatory released.
丈夫冯矬子从那苦熬的炼狱中获释了。
Mr Murdoch may yet find that purgatory is the easy bit.
但默多克或许会发现，这还不是最难的。
Souls in purgatory, who are members of the church just like living Christians, must suffer so that they can be purged of their sins.
心灵炼狱，他们是教会成员一样生活基督徒要这么辛苦，他们可以抵偿自己的罪孽。
Souls are so purified in purgatory.
人的灵魂将在炼狱中得到净化。
Pray for the Souls in Purgatory!
为炼狱的灵魂祈祷！
How can we help the souls in Purgatory ?
我们能怎麽救助炼狱灵魂呢？
Or was purgatory the right word?
或者受难地是那个正确的词？
Those tares of changing the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory were evidently sown while the bishops slept [Matt. 13: 25].
这些将教义上的惩罚改变成为求涤罪的惩罚的稗子们，显然地趁著主教睡著时播种（太13：25）。
