参考词典中torture的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 拷打,拷问;折磨;歪曲,曲解
vt. 拷打,拷问;折磨,使痛苦;歪曲,曲解
词形变化
- 时 态:tor·tured, tor·tur·ing, tor·tures名 词:tor'tur·er
常用短语
参考例句
- The use of torture must disgust any civilized person.
施用酷刑必为文明社会的人所不齿。 - She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
她为风湿痛所苦。 - She was tortured by jealousy.
她为妒忌心所折磨。 - The fear of failure tortured him.
对失败的担忧使他十分痛苦。 - To inflict severe pain on;torture.
使痛苦使受剧烈的痛苦;折磨
- The use of torture must disgust any civilized person.
英英解释
5个名词解释
- extreme mental distress
[同] anguish, torment, torture - unbearable physical pain
[同] torment, torture
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- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
[同] agony, torment, torture
[例]- an agony of doubt
- the torments of the damned
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
[同] distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting - 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
[同] torture, torturing
[例]- it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
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- torment emotionally or mentally
[同] excruciate, rack, torment, torture - subject to torture
[同] excruciate, torment, torture
[例]- The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
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