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，不知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）我们都知道炼狱。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。这一周是漫长的炼狱。

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，我们经历了好几轮炼狱，而我最近的处境比以往任何时候都更糟。

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 月下旬公布了大规模、 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.

毫无疑问，它来自某个痛苦的灵魂， 他希望被祈祷脱离炼狱：但我们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知道发生了什么却什么都不说的人， 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。