torment

['tɔ:ment,tɔ:'ment]

n.苦痛, 拷问,折磨, 烦恼
vt.使苦恼, 折磨

例句与用法：

He suffered a hideous torment when the enemy caught him.

敌人抓到他后，他受到可怕的折磨。

What a little torment that child is!

这孩子真烦人！

She torments everyone with silly questions.

她用无聊的问题来烦扰大家。

That child is a torment to his parents.

这孩子对他的父母是一种折磨。

词形变化：

副词: tormentingly | 动词过去式: tormented | 动词过去分词: tormented | 动词现在分词: tormenting | 动词第三人称单数: torments |

n.

1. 痛苦; 苦恼[U][P]

He suffered torments from a bad burn.

他因严重烧伤而受痛苦。

2. 痛苦(或苦恼)的根源[C][(+to)]

She is a real torment to me.

她真是令我苦恼。

vt.

1. 使痛苦, 折磨; 烦扰[(+with)]

The guards were accused of tormenting the prisoners.

监狱看守被指控折磨囚犯。

2. 纠缠; 作弄

She torments everyone with her silly questions.

她用那些愚蠢的问题纠缠每一个人。

3. 歪曲

torment

名词复数：torments

词形变化：

副词: tormentingly | 动词过去式: tormented | 动词过去分词: tormented | 动词现在分词: tormenting | 动词第三人称单数: torments |

同义词：

distress | tease | plague | harass | trouble | pester | persecute | bother | anguish | agony | torture | suffering | nuisance | bane | pest | annoy | taunt | pain | agonize | irritate | harrow | molest | heckle | badger | harry | worry | rack | afflict | inflame | excruciate | bedevilment | harassment | dun | rag | frustrate | curse | badgering | crucify | bedevil | worrying | misery | grief | sorrow |

反义词：

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torment[tɔ:'ment; 'tɔ:m-]n.1.■折磨；痛苦；苦恼2.■使人痛苦(或烦恼)的东西；折磨者3.■[古语]刑具；拷问，逼供vt.1.■折磨；使痛苦：He was constantly tormented with headache.他不断受到头痛的折磨。She was tormented with fear.她受到恐惧的折磨。2.■使烦恼；烦扰；纠缠：She tormented me with some silly questions.她问了些无聊问题烦扰我。3.■曲解；歪曲4.■[罕用语]拷打，拷问5.■[废语]搅动；搅起近义词racktorture反义词comfortthe torments of Tantalus大难，难以忍受的苦难

1. [mass noun]severe physical or mental suffering
   （肉体、精神上的）折磨，痛苦
   their deaths have left both families in torment.
   他们的死令两家人都极为痛苦。
   ■[count noun]a cause of such suffering
   折磨，痛苦的原因
   the journey must have been a torment for them.
   这次旅行一定让他们吃尽了苦头。
   

1. [with obj.]cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering
   使痛苦，受折磨
   he was tormented by jealousy.
   他饱受嫉妒之苦。
   ■annoy or provoke in a deliberately unkind way
   纠缠；烦扰
   every day I have kids tormenting me because they know I live alone.
   每天都有孩子们来作弄我，因为他们知道我一人独处。
   

1. Middle English (as both noun and verb referring to the infliction or suffering of torture): from Old French torment (noun), tormenter (verb), from Latin tormentum 'instrument of torture', from torquere 'to twist'
   

torment

名词 torment:

unbearable physical pain

同义词：torture

extreme mental distress

同义词：anguish, torture

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

同义词：agony, torture

a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

同义词：harassment

a severe affliction

同义词：curse

the act of harassing someone

同义词：badgering, worrying, bedevilment

动词 torment:

torment emotionally or mentally

同义词：torture, excruciate, rack

treat cruelly

同义词：rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate

subject to torture

同义词：torture, excruciate

torment

■In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

23他在阴间受痛苦，举目远远地望见亚伯拉罕，又望见拉撒路在他怀里。

■And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his bosom.

24就喊着说，我祖亚伯拉罕，可怜我吧，打发拉撒路来，用指头尖蘸点水，凉凉我的舌头，因为我在这火焰里极其痛苦。

■Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?

25你要惊动被风吹的叶子吗?要追赶枯干的碎秸吗?

■And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

29他们喊着说，神的儿子，我们与你有什么相干。时候还没有到，你就上这里来叫我们受苦吗。

■NIV]' How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

[和合]“你们搅扰我的心，用言语压碎我，要到几时呢?

■NIV] Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?

[和合]你要惊动被22风吹的叶子吗?要追赶枯干的碎23秸吗?

■"Well, Sid don't torment a body the way you do.

“噢，希德可不像你这样磨人。

■An eternity of torment passed, and then it was gone.

一阵永恒的折磨来临了，然后它结束了。

■To irritate or torment persistently.

不断地激怒或折磨

■Don't torment yourself if a trade continues wi ing without you.

不要折磨你自己即使你出来之后那笔交易还在赢钱。

■Nay, what is so bitter and vehement as the torment of love?

不，有什麽痛苦像爱的折磨那麽强烈呢？

■I thank living before ugly, it brought me charming; I thank living after ugly, it bought me light; I thank living during ugly, it brought me torment.

丑陋之前我感谢生活,它给我妩媚;丑陋之后我感谢生活,它给我淡定;丑陋之中我感谢生活,它给我煎熬。

■English: Love is a sweet torment.

中文:爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。

■English: Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.

中文:爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘愿受此痛苦的折磨。

■Why do you )torment me like this?

为什么你)像这一样使我苦恼?

■For what Chinese to torment adamancy?

为什麽中国人折磨坚强？

■Also let my heart pay too many.But, I am imagining to embezzle to suffer to torment.

也让我的心付出了太多。而我却在憧憬中饱受着折磨。

■People greeted the archer joyfully, as a hero who might save them from their torment.

人们无不喜迎这位射箭手，把他看成是拯救苦难的英雄。

■How can a merciful God permit a human being to suffer such torment?

仁慈的上帝怎么容许一个人受这样的痛苦?

■How can a merciful God permit a human being to suffer such torment ?

仁慈的上帝怎么容许一个人受这样的痛苦？

■He has never suffered the torment of rejection.

他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦。

■They cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

他们喊着说,神的儿子,我们与你有什么相干。时候还没有到,你就上这里来叫我们受苦吗。

■And behold, they cried out, saying, What do we have to do with You, Son of God? Have You come here before the time to torment us?

他们喊著说,神的儿子,我们与你何干?时候还没有到,你就来这里叫我们受苦么?

■They represented the Buddha as the saviour from almost unlimited torment.

他们推尊佛陀为无边苦难的救主。

■They torment me with their probings!

他们用探针折磨我！

■He became a monk in the hope of delivering all beings from torment.

他出家为僧，一心想普度众生。

■He has experienced torment from the school bully.

他受到过学校霸王的骚扰。

■From hell where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham afar off, and with him Lazarus at rest.

他在阴间，在痛苦中举目一望，远远看见亚巴郎及他怀抱中的拉匝禄，

■His shyness made public speaking a torment to him.

他很腼腆，当众讲话简直是受罪。

■His schooldays were a torment.

他的学生时期是一场苦难。

■He was in great torment after losing all of his children in a car accident.

他的孩子们全都在车祸中丧生，这使他陷入了痛苦的深渊。

■This was the torment in which he found himself.

他的心因有着那样的烦恼而感到困惑。

■He was shackled and in darkness of torment .

他被困在黑暗中备受煎熬。

■The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was unchained afresh within him.

他费了无穷的力才消释了的那种烦恼又重新涌上了心头。

■This tender torment, tinged with delight!

以喜悦的心情使这温柔苦恼叮当作响!

■But for them, the treasure turned into a torment.

但是对于他们而言，珍宝变成了痛苦。

■His unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's slave labour camps riveted his compatriots, whose secret history he exposed.

作为苏联劳改营的一名幸存者，他真实的记录了那里的痛苦，籍此让他的同胞看到了那些不为人知的历史。

■How long will you torment me and crush me with words?

你们搅扰我的心，用言语压碎我，要到几时呢?

■You can let your mistake torment you,embarrass you and hold you back.

你可以让你的错误折磨你，为难你，阻碍你。

■You have forgotten the one ingredient,lacking which each possession becomes a hideous torment.

你忘了那个要素，如果缺少了它，每项财产都会变成可怕的折磨。”

■Never will you find a woman who spares the man who loves her; for though she be herself aflame, she delights to torment him.

你找不到一个女人会轻易放过爱她的男人;尽管她自己也爱火中烧,却总是乐于折磨他。

■It was wicked of you to torment the poor girl.

你折磨那可怜的女孩, 真是恶劣。

■You are to me deliciours torment.

你是我美味的痛苦。

■Thou little knowest what a relief it is, after the torment of a seven years' cheat, to look into an eye that recognizes me for what I am!

你简直想象不出，在经过七年之久的欺骗的折磨之后，看到一双眼睛能够认清我是什么货色，我的心内有多么轻松！

■Will you torment a windblown leaf?

你要惊动被风吹的叶子吗？

■Ms Pelosi is preparing to torment the president with some subtlety.

佩洛希女士正准备利用一些细枝末节的事情向布什总统发难。

■To annoy, torment, or harass.

使人苦恼、气恼或受折磨

■To inflict great distress or torment on.

使困苦，使苦恼使遭受巨大的悲伤和折磨

■To inflict great pain on; torment.

使遭受巨大痛苦，折磨

■Even those surviving are merely in a never ending struggle against hunger and danger, doomed to succumb to the torment of sickness and accident.

侥幸生存者亦不过在饥饿与危险中无休止的挣扎、难敌病患意外的折磨。