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    In Catholic belief, purgatory is a place or state after death where souls are cleansed of their sins before they can enter heaven — not heaven, not hell, but an in-between stage of waiting and cleansing. In everyday speech, "purgatory" is used more loosely for any situation that feels like painful, boring, or uncomfortable waiting that you just have to get through, like calling a long, tedious meeting "pure purgatory."

    （天主教）煉獄；（引申）如煉獄般難熬的處境

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組成From Latin purgare, "to cleanse" — the same root as the word purge.

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  • purgepurgatory and purge both come from the Latin word purgare, meaning to cleanse

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Purgatoryname

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    ChristianityAn intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.

purgatorynoun/ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi/

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    Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.

    • the purgatory of lost love
    • […] many Gods breedeth heathens miseries, many countries trauailers humors, many wiues mens purgatories, and many friends trustes ruine:

purgatoryadj/ˈpɝɡəˌtɔɹi/

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    Tending to cleanse; expiatory.

    • Last of all, the prodigie of Siracusa was expiat by a purgatory sacrifice, by direction from the soothsaiers to what gods, supplications and sacrifice should be made.
    • This purgatory interval is not unfavourable to a faithless representative, who may be as good a canvasser as he was a bad governor.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。