英:[ˌpɜ:gə'tɔ:rɪəl]
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词根:purgatory
adj.purgatory 涤罪的(等于purgative)
n.purification 净化;提纯;涤罪
purgatory 炼狱;涤罪;暂时的苦难
Adjective
1. serving to purge or rid of sin;
"purgatorial rites"
2. of or resembling purgatory;
"purgatorial fires"
The first known use of purgatorial was in the 15th century
1 Released at last from worldly suffering, he is in a kind of purgatorial state between death and resurrection.
2 It makes total sense that anyone would feel relieved with the death of someone they loved and had a complicated relationship because they're no longer in that purgatorial space with them.
3 And in this they are all starkly unlike the dress-up dolls turned out in borrowed tuxedos at the Emmy Awards or any of the now ubiquitous and wholly purgatorial red carpet events.
4 To the discard with it, where, flaming in purgatorial fires, it may be refashioned for future reincarnation on some other planet.
5 Set in a sort of purgatorial shooting gallery, “Assassins” presented an assortment of men and women who had killed — or attempted to kill — American presidents, including John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Hinckley.
6 But “El Conde” is more interested in the loss of power, and in the strange, purgatorial existence that awaits its immortal subject years after his presumed death at the age of 91.
7 A little later, downstairs in the lobby, which looked like some purgatorial setting, Nazario had assembled most of the tenants.
8 God says: are evil the thing does not calculate a lot of, still arrive purgatorial in.
上帝说: 你恶事不算很多, 还是到炼狱里吧.
9 If you are waiting for one, as many people are on any given night, it’s purgatorial.
10 The head and shoulders portrait looms, larger than life, and under glass, from a black purgatorial background.
11 Repeat: liquid rock, in full purgatorial glow, inches below your feet.
12 “Where Is Kyra?” operates in the realm of begrimed realism — its dark depths are purgatorial, if not outright hellish.
13 Whitehead had written five crisscrossing scripts, Blum was investigating real estate options, and the cast was raring to go, ready to play the tortured denizens of a purgatorial nightclub.
14 The collective impact — there were 90 figures in all — was dramatic and purgatorial.
15 Cristobal’s purgatorial malaise evokes a tad too much empathy in viewers, who may be reminded that time is money, even for nonhustlers.
16 For Bran, these qualities neutralize the place into a purgatorial zone.
17 Are they suffering from a purgatorial spiritual condition?
18 “Ready to go and not going” is the purgatorial condition throughout the novel.
19 The cinematographer Agnès Godard shoots the wintry Swiss setting in desiccated blue tones, making the empty field between the line and the house look particularly purgatorial.
20 He was poorly served at times by his two pacemakers, who ran too far in front of him at times to leave him on his purgatorial own for too long.