tortures
n. 拷问( torture的名词复数 ); 折磨; 痛苦; (精神上或肉体上的)折磨
v. 使痛苦( torture的第三人称单数 ); 使苦恼; 使焦急
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。
She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受着牙痛的折磨.
She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
她为风湿痛所苦.
How can they sleep at night for dreading the tortures of next day?
一想到明天还得受这份儿罪,就应该胆战心寒,夜里他们怎么居然还睡得着觉 呢 ?
Unfortunately, she doesn't care about them tortures them instead.
不幸的是, 她对孩子们漠不关心还折磨他们.
She suffered the tortures of toothaches.
她因牙痛而痛苦.