1. In Catholic teachings, a place where people suffer temporarily after death. Religion says that good people go to heaven to enjoy eternal happiness after death, and bad people go to hell to be punished forever after death; However, if a good man did not atone before his death, he must be punished in purgatory for a while before going to heaven after his death until his sins are exhausted.

2. It is used to describe an exercise in a sinister situation or environment.

purgatory

Quote:

Guo Moruo's appeal to revolutionary civil rights: "The whole world is fighting for the rise and fall of democratic spirit in the purgatory of war."

Eternal Life in Fire: "From Xifeng to Baigongguan, after ten years of purgatory, Lao Xu has long been a matter of life and death."

Yu Dafu's "Chi Guihua": "Both of them live a dull life like purgatory."

Synonym:

hell

Interpretation: Sanskrit Naraka means "a bitter world". Being underground, there are eight cold and eight hot, and there are endless names. In ancient India, it was said that people did bad things before they died, and they would fall into hell and suffer all kinds of hardships after they died. Buddhism also adopts this theory.

Quote: Ru Zhijuan's Lost Night I: "Bao Ye's eyes are wide open, she is afraid, she feels horrible, and she thinks of the eighteen layers of hell that people often say, one of which is to go up the knife and go down the mountain to fry oil."

Interpretation: opposite to the sky. Originally Hebrew, later Christianity translated into hell. The original meaning of Jewish classics is "the underworld", which only refers to the place where the souls of the dead go, and does not involve rewards and punishments; Later, it was used by Christians to refer to the place where the souls of people who did not believe in Jesus Christ were sentenced to eternal punishment after the final judgment.

Quote: China's modern history data series "The Truth Book of Tianqing in Taiping Tian Kun": "Kanjia brothers and sisters, stand at attention and respect God's surname. Since then, they have been carefree in hell, and naturally they will be in heaven forever. "

Interpretation: A metaphor for a sinister and tragic situation.

Quote:

Feng Xuefeng Shangrao concentration camp Part I: "This is a dark hell on earth!"

The preface of Cao Yu's "Gardening and Metallurgy": "His eyes are fierce, cunning, deceitful and jealous. He is a man who has just escaped from hell. "