torture

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基本釋義

n.
拷問; 折磨; 痛苦; (精神上或肉體上的)折磨
vt.
使痛苦; 使苦惱; 使焦急; 曲解

詞性變化

實用例句

Many of the refugees have suffered torture.

許多難民都遭受過拷打。

牛津詞典

the use of torture

施酷刑

牛津詞典

terrible instruments of torture

可怕的刑訊工具

牛津詞典

His confessions were made under torture .

他被屈打成招。

牛津詞典

I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.

我聽說過監(jiān)獄里令人毛骨悚然的刑訊。

牛津詞典

The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.

這次面試從頭至尾使人備受煎熬。

牛津詞典

Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.

反叛者中許多人被捕并遭受到秘密警察的酷刑。

牛津詞典

He was tortured into giving them the information.

他受不住酷刑被迫向他們供出了情報。

牛津詞典

He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.

童年的記憶使他痛苦了一輩子。

牛津詞典

French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...

法國警方確信她是被拷打致死。

Three members of the group had been tortured to death…

該團體中有三個人被拷打致死。

He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...

他不愿與她爭辯,讓她更痛苦。

She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.

她想象著鮑勃和他的新女友在一起的情形,心里備受煎熬。

Waiting for the result was torture...

等待結(jié)果的過程是一種折磨。

The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture

被單摩擦著他的皮膚,簡直像是酷刑。

Stories of torture and secret killings abound.

酷刑和秘密殺害的故事路人皆知.

期刊摘選

Losing everything, bit by bit, torture.

一點一點地 、 折磨人地失去每一樣東西.

期刊摘選

And the souls will feel torture and torment and love and compassion.

而靈魂將會感覺痛苦和折磨,愛,慈悲.

期刊摘選

Possibly I torture myself in vain?

說不定我是在白白地折磨自己 吧 ?

期刊摘選

Bush – should be prosecuted for violating domestic and international laws on torture.

本人——違反了國內(nèi)和國際的酷刑法?

期刊摘選

Through those long years of imprisonment and torture, he remained faithful and unyielding.

在那些遭受囚禁和酷刑的漫長歲月里, 他始終堅貞不屈.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

I've been the sport of that intolerable torture!

我 總是 被那種不可容忍的折磨所捉弄!

辭典例句

Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her.

卓婭英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑.

《簡明英漢詞典》

The criminal is undergoing torture.

犯人在受嚴刑拷打.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.

審問者使囚犯們受到折磨.

《簡明英漢詞典》

No torture would make him speak.

任何嚴刑拷打都不能使他開口.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

真題例句

The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. extreme mental distress

  • 2. unbearable physical pain

  • 3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;

    "an agony of doubt"

    "the torments of the damned"

  • 4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

  • 5. the act of torturing someone;

    "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

Verb
  • 1. torment emotionally or mentally

  • 2. subject to torture;

    "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

同義詞辨析

agony, anguish, torment, torture, grief, misery, distress, sorrow

這些名詞均有"苦惱,痛苦"之意。

  • agony:側(cè)重指精神或身體痛苦的劇烈程度。
  • anguish:指精神方面令人難以忍受的極度痛苦;用于身體時,多指局部或暫時的痛苦。
  • torment:強調(diào)煩惱或痛苦的長期性。
  • torture:語氣比toment強,指在精神或肉體上受到的折磨所產(chǎn)生的痛苦。
  • grief:指由某種特殊處境或原因造成的強烈的感情上的苦惱與悲痛。
  • misery:著重痛苦的可悲狀態(tài),多含不幸、可憐或悲哀的意味。
  • distress:多指因思想上的壓力緊張、恐懼、憂慮等所引起的精神上的痛苦,也可指某種災難帶來的痛苦。
  • sorrow:語氣比grief弱,指因不幸、損失或失望等所產(chǎn)生的悲傷。

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