torture
n. 拷问; 折磨; 痛苦; (精神上或肉体上的)折磨
vt. 使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 曲解
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.
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…
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
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。
If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
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…
被单摩擦着他的皮肤,简直像是酷刑。
1. extreme mental distress
2. unbearable physical pain
3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
5. the act of torturing someone;
1. torment emotionally or mentally
2. subject to torture;
agony, anguish, torment, torture, grief, misery, distress, sorrow
这些名词均有"苦恼,痛苦"之意。
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 – 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?