torture
英['tɔːtʃə(r)] 美['tɔːrtʃər]
"an agony of doubt"
"the torments of the damned"
"it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
"The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
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。
The use of torture must disgust any civilized person.
施用酷刑必为文明社会的人所不齿。
torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
严刑拷打往往使施刑者和受刑者都丧失人性。
She suffered the torture of toothache.
她因牙痛而痛苦。
He tortured his prisoners.
他拷打犯人。
He was tortured with anxiety.
他为焦虑所苦。
Winds tortured the trees.
风把树吹得歪歪斜斜。
Many of the refugees have suffered torture.
许多难民都遭受过拷打。
the use of torture
施酷刑
terrible instruments of torture
可怕的刑讯工具
His confessions were made under torture .
他被屈打成招。
I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.
我听说过监狱里令人毛骨悚然的刑讯。
The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
这次面试从头至尾使人备受煎熬。
Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.
反叛者中许多人被捕并遭受到秘密警察的酷刑。
He was tortured into giving them the information.
他受不住酷刑被迫向他们供出了情报。
He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.
童年的记忆使他痛苦了一辈子。
French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
Three members of the group had been tortured to death'u2026
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
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。
Waiting for the result was torture...
等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture'u2026
被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。
Stories of torture and secret killings abound.
酷刑和秘密杀害的故事路人皆知.
Losing everything, bit by bit, torture.
一点一点地 、 折磨人地失去每一样东西.
And the souls will feel torture and torment and love and compassion.
而灵魂将会感觉痛苦和折磨,爱,慈悲.
Possibly I torture myself in vain?
说不定我是在白白地折磨自己 吧 ?
Bush 'u2013 should be prosecuted for violating domestic and international laws on torture.
本人——违反了国内和国际的酷刑法?
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长岁月里, 他始终坚贞不屈.
I've been the sport of that intolerable torture!
我 总是 被那种不可容忍的折磨所捉弄!
Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her.
卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑.
The criminal is undergoing torture.
犯人在受严刑拷打.
The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.
审问者使囚犯们受到折磨.
No torture would make him speak.
任何严刑拷打都不能使他开口.
His tension mounts, and the last quarter hour before they meet is sheer torture.
出自：J. Moynahan