She looked another way, disconcerted, and wondered how long this purgatory was to last.

游苔莎给看得很不自在，把头扭到一边，心里在想，不道这场折磨要持续多久。

In the past several months, I have been living in purgatory.

在过去的几个月里，我一直生活在炼狱中。

(Laughter) We all know that purgatory. Why not make good use of that time?

（笑声）我道炼狱。为什么不好好利用这段时间呢？

Some people talk of marriage as a safe haven, heaven even, but for me it has turned out to be nothing less than purgatory here on earth.

有的人说婚姻是安全的避难所，甚至说是天堂，但对于我来说，它简直是地球上的炼狱。

Grant's smile broadened as he watched the spirit that won the empire in full blast. He was very tired. The week had been a long purgatory.

格兰特看着这支全盛时期赢得帝国的精神，笑得更灿烂了。他很累。这一是漫长的炼狱。

We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse ledge of it than ever.

自从你离开后，我经历了好几轮炼狱，而我最近的处境比以往任何时候更糟。

Britain made a spectacular entry into this financial purgatory in late September by unveiling plans for huge, unfunded tax cuts, sending the value of sterling crashing.

英国在 9 月旬公布了大规模、 无资金来源的减税计划， 从而以惊人的速度进入了这个金融炼狱，导致英镑贬值。

Doubtless, it proceeds from some Soul in pain, who wishes to be prayed out of purgatory: But none of us here dares ask it the question.

无疑问，它来自某个痛苦的灵魂， 他希望被祈祷脱离炼狱：但我这里没有人敢问这个问题。

But if I was right, the fact that I could have been a person that knew what was going on and didn't say something, that was purgatory.

但如果我是对的，事实上我本可以成为一个道发生了什么却什么不说的人， 那就是炼狱。

The common man would be drawn in low and then, in a sort of audio purgatory, be purified by BBC programming until he achieved the blessed state of voluntarily enjoying Buxtehude.

普通人会被底层节目吸引，然后在这种音频炼狱中，通过BBC的节目得到净化，直到他达到自愿欣赏布克斯特胡德的幸福状态。

By the end of the 12th century, they had become holy days of obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing church bells for the souls in purgatory.

到 12 世纪末，它已成为整个欧洲的义务圣日， 并涉及为炼狱中的灵魂敲响教堂钟声等传统。

Notably, its exploration of the five stages of grief, Buddhist teachings, and many Catholics view Phil's time loop as purgatory and that he can only be freed by embracing selflessness.

值得注意的是， 它对悲伤的五个阶段的探索、佛教教义和许多天主教徒将菲尔的时间循环视为炼狱， 他只能通过拥抱无私来获得自由。

Last midsummer I received a circular from a typewriting person, soliciting my custom; some one who had somehow got hold of my name, and fancied me to be still in purgatory.

去年仲夏，我收到一位打字员的通，征求我的意见；某个不何故道了我的名字，并认为我还在炼狱中的人。

The monolith is a literal blank screen, on whose shimmering surface we can etch our terrors, longings, fantasies, crackpot theories, gallows humor and other dreams and nightmares incubated in the anxious purgatory of 2020.

巨石就是一个空白屏，在它闪闪发光的表面上，我可以蚀刻我的恐惧、渴望、幻想、疯狂的理论、黑色幽默和其他在2020年酝酿的噩梦。