ordeal
- n. 折磨；严酷的考验；痛苦的经验
考试真题
- Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)—a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year's Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
- Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C