trial by fire

火试火试法火力试验火力试探

trial by fire 的定义

  1. 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

trial by fire

等同于 baptism of fire

更多trial by fire例句

  1. But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
  2. Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
  3. Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
  4. The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.
  5. The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
  6. All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
  7. "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
  8. She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
  9. The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
  10. But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.