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Ordeal
01
суровое испытание
a difficult or painful experience, often one that lasts long and requires great effort and endurance to overcome
Примеры
Climbing the mountain was an ordeal that tested their physical and mental limits.
Восхождение на гору было испытанием, которое проверило их физические и психические пределы.
The ordeal of losing her job was followed by months of uncertainty and struggle.
Испытание потери работы сопровождалось месяцами неопределенности и борьбы.
02
ордалия, Божий суд
a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
