Torture是什么意思？

Torture

英[ˈtɔ:tʃə(r)] 美[ˈtɔrtʃə(r)]

• 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；

复数：tortures;

第三人称单数：tortures;

过去式：tortured;

过去分词：tortured;

现在分词：torturing;

例句

• The torture made him confess. 严刑拷打使他招供了。
• 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。
• Are you tying to torture yourselves riding bikes in such hot weather? 这麽热的天气骑脚踏车,你们是不是在折磨自己?
• The interrogators put the prisoner to torture. 审问者使囚犯们受到折磨.
• The wound festers during several days of torture. 伤口溃疡了,折腾了我好几天.
• 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.
• The memo also a legal theory for circumventing similar prohibitions against torture in the Geneva Convention. 这个备忘录也为使之符合日内瓦公约中相同的虐囚禁令提供了法律理论.
• Why should he talk when he's being wined and dined by the anti - torture statutes? 当他这种处境的时候为什么还不说?
• By giving me this burning torture to bear upon my breast! 他让我忍受这胸前灼烧的痛楚!
• I don't mean to nitpick , but you're the worst at this torture thing. 我不想调戏你, 但你在这个矛盾中处境不妙.

同义词

• vt.
  torture的同义词之：使痛苦;使苦恼
  plague, harrow, distress, agonize, torment, afflict, persecute, inflame, pain,
• torture的同义词之：其他释义
  oppression, distress, torment, agonize, plague, agony, inflame, anguish, pain, harrow, contort, persecution, punishment, hell, grief, crucify, anxiety, persecute, tantalize,

同义词解析

• 以下这些名词均有"苦恼，痛苦" 的意思
  agony ：侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。
  anguish ：指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。
  torment ：强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。
  torture ：语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。
  grief ：指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。
  misery ：着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。
  distress ：多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。
  sorrow ：语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  拷打;拷问;虐待
  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.
  例句
  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。
• VERB
  折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
  To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
  例句
  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。
• N-UNCOUNT
  折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
  If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  拷问, 刑讯
  The torture made him confess. 严刑拷打使他招供了。
  折磨; 痛苦
  She suffered tortures from a toothache. 她受着牙痛的折磨。
• vt.
  拷问, 折磨
  They tortured the man to make him confess his crime. 他们拷打那个人, 使他招认他的罪行。 There were several problems which tortured the elderly man. 有几个问题折磨着那老人。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. extreme mental distress
  2. unbearable physical pain
  3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
  "an agony of doubt""the torments of the damned"
  4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  5. the act of torturing someone;
  "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
• Verb
  1. torment emotionally or mentally
  2. subject to torture;
  "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"

行业词典

• 法律： 酷刑；刑讯；