torture
英 [ˈtɔ:tʃə(r)] 美 [ˈtɔ:rtʃə(r)]
名词: torturer 过去式: tortured 过去分词: tortured 现在分词: torturing 第三人称单数: tortures
torture基本解释
n.拷问；痛苦
vt.拷问；使痛苦；曲解
torture相关例句
及物动词
1. He was tortured with anxiety.
他为焦虑所苦。
2. The police tortured him to confess his crime.
警察拷打他，逼他招供。
3. Winds tortured the trees.
风把树吹得歪歪斜斜。
名词
1. The sight of his sick brother wastorture to him.
看到他生病的哥哥那副样子令他非常痛苦。
2. She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受牙痛的折磨。
3. Many of the POWs died undertorture.
许多战俘被折磨致死。
torture词典解释
1.拷打;拷问;虐待
If someoneis tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
e.g. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
e.g. Three members of the group had beentortured to death…
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
2.折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
Totorture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
e.g. He would nottorture her further by trying to argue with her...
他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
e.g. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。
3.折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
If you say that something istorture or atorture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
e.g. Waiting for the result wastorture...
等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
e.g. The friction of the sheets against his skin wastorture…
被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。
torture英英释义
noun
1.the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
e.g. it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Synonym: torturing
2.the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonym: distortionoverrefinementstrainingtwisting
3.intense feelings of suffering
acute mental or physical pain
e.g. an agony of doubt
the torments of the damned
Synonym: agonytorment
4.extreme mental distress
Synonym: anguishtorment
5.unbearable physical pain
Synonym: torment
verb
1.subject to torture
e.g. The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
Synonym: excruciatetorment
2.torment emotionally or mentally
Synonym: tormentexcruciaterack
