ordeal

épreuve, calvaire

Expérience très difficile ou pénible que l’on doit traverser.

En anglais simple : A very difficult or upsetting experience that you have to go through.

• The journey was an ordeal.
• They survived a terrible ordeal at sea.
• Her family helped her through the ordeal.

Comment l'utiliser : ordeal of doing something (She faced the ordeal of telling her family.)

Synonymes : trial, trauma

Expressions courantes : terrible ordeal, survive an ordeal, ordeal of something, painful ordeal