English Dictionary

trial by fire

名詞

広義 慣用表現

A test in which a person is exposed to flames in order to assess their truthfulness, commitment, courage etc.

日本語の意味

火を用いた試験や試練。たとえば、真実性、献身、勇気などを評価するために、実際に火に晒される儀式や体験を指す。 / （比喩的に）困難な状況や厳しい試練を通じて、その人の本質や能力が明らかになる経験。

During the village's ancient rites, the accused underwent a trial by fire to prove whether they had lied.

村の古い儀式で、被告は嘘をついたかどうかを確かめるために炎にさらされる試練を受けた。

意味（1）

A test in which a person is exposed to flames in order to assess their truthfulness, commitment, courage etc.

“[I]t seems to me Fra Francesco is the greater hero, for he offers to enter the fire for the truth, though he is sure the fire will burn him.” . . . “It is true, Messer Segretario,” said the shopkeeper, with subdued impatience. “But will you favour us by interpreting the Latin?” “Assuredly,” said Tito. “It does but express the conclusions or doctrines which the Frate specially teaches, and which the trial by fire is to prove true or false.”

意味（2）

A situation in which a soldier or other combatant faces the discharge of opposing weapons, as a test of their fortitude.

French troops, submitting to a trial by fire, drew toward the German forts, capturing and holding some machine-gun nests.

意味（3）

(idiomatic, by extension) Any ordeal which tests one's strength, endurance or resolve.

But take it all in all, the overland trail was a trial by fire. One gets a notion of its deadliness from the fact that over five thousand people died of cholera alone.

trials by fire （ plural ）