名詞折磨; 拷問; 痛苦; （精神上或肉體上的）折磨
及物動(dòng)詞使痛苦; 使苦惱; 使焦急; 曲解
torture
及物動(dòng)詞
1. He was tortured with anxiety.
他為焦慮所苦。
2. The police tortured him to confess his crime.
警察拷打他，逼他招供。
3. Winds tortured the trees.
風(fēng)把樹吹得歪歪斜斜。
名詞
1. The sight of his sick brother was torture to him.
看到他生病的哥哥那副樣子令他非常痛苦。
2. She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受牙痛的折磨。
3. Many of the POWs died under torture.
許多戰(zhàn)俘被折磨致死。
1. 拷打;拷問;虐待
If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
torture是什么意思
e.g. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
法國警方確信她是被拷打致死。
e.g. Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
該團(tuán)體中有三個(gè)人被拷打致死。
2. 折磨;使痛苦;使苦惱
To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
e.g. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
他不愿與她爭辯，讓她更痛苦。
e.g. 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。
3. 折磨;痛苦;苦惱;引起痛苦(或苦惱)的事物
If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
e.g. Waiting for the result was torture...
等待結(jié)果的過程是一種折磨。
e.g. 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。