purgatory是什么意思

双语用例

• All twelfth- and thirteenth-century theologians discussing purgatory agreed on certain points.

• I take line 149 to be a reference to the souls in purgatory who are helped by the alms of the living.

• They go through purgatory, with social security staff asking them why they are claiming benefit.

• The inference was that we must not complain if in these days the workers had to go through the same kind of purgatory.

• There may be—one does not know—a moral purgatory for those who do not carry out their promises.

• As it is, many of these represent two days of complete purgatory.

• Prisons should be places for reform, not ruination; for deterrence, not degradation; for punishment, not purgatory.

• Teaching teenagers in some schools must be difficult, and in some cases it must be purgatory.