- 看过 trial by fire 的人也看了 :
- hazing
- initiation
- martyrdom
- ordeal
- rite of passage
trial by fire 的定义
- A test of one's abilities to perform well under pressure, as in Finishing this buge list of chores in time for the wedding is really a trial by fire. This expression alludes to the medieval practice of determining a person's guilt by having them undergo an ordeal, such as walking barefoot through a fire.
trial by fire 近义词
等同于 baptism of fire
trial by fire 的近义词 7 个
更多trial by fire例句
- But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
- Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
- Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
- The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.
- The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
- All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
- "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
- She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
- The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
- But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.