tortures
n. 拷問( torture的名詞複數 ); 折磨; 痛苦; (精神上或肉體上的)折磨
v. 使痛苦( torture的第三人稱單數 ); 使苦惱; 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...
法國警方確信她是被拷打致死。
Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
該團體中有三個人被拷打致死。
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...
他不願與她爭辯,讓她更痛苦。
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,心裡備受煎熬。
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...
等待結果的過程是一種折磨。
The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…
被單摩擦著他的面板,簡直像是酷刑。
She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受著牙痛的折磨.
She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
她為風溼痛所苦.
How can they sleep at night for dreading the tortures of next day?
一想到明天還得受這份兒罪,就應該膽戰心寒,夜裡他們怎麼居然還睡得著覺 呢 ?
Unfortunately, she doesn't care about them tortures them instead.
不幸的是, 她對孩子們漠不關心還折磨他們.
She suffered the tortures of toothaches.
她因牙痛而痛苦.