torture
['tɔ:tʃə]
n.拷问, 痛苦
vt.拷问, 使痛苦, 曲解
例句与用法:
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 use of torture must disgust any civilized person.
施用酷刑必为文明社会的人所不齿。
He tortured his prisoners.
他拷打犯人。
She suffered the tortures of toothaches.
她因牙痛而痛苦。
词形变化:
名词: torturer | 动词过去式: tortured | 动词过去分词: tortured | 动词现在分词: torturing | 动词第三人称单数: tortures |
n.
1. 拷打, 酷刑; 拷问[U]
Many of the POWs died under torture.
许多战俘被折磨致死。
2. 折磨, 痛苦[C][U][(+of)][+to-v]
She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受牙痛的折磨。
The sight of his sick brother was torture to him.
看到他生病的哥哥那副样子令他非常痛苦。
3. 歪曲; 扭曲[U]
vt.
1. 拷打; 拷问[O][O2]
The police tortured him to confess his crime.
警察拷打他, 逼他招供。
2. 折磨; 使为难[H][(+with/by)]
He was tortured with anxiety.
他为焦虑所苦。
3. 歪曲; 扭曲
Winds tortured the trees.
风把树吹得歪歪斜斜。
torture
名词复数:tortures
过去式:tortured
过去分词:tortured
现在进行时:torturing
词形变化:
名词: torturer | 动词过去式: tortured | 动词过去分词: tortured | 动词现在分词: torturing | 动词第三人称单数: tortures |
词义辨析:
同义:
vt.使痛苦; 使苦恼
pain
distress
afflict
torment
agonize
harrow
inflame
persecute
plague
同义参见:
grief
hell
rack1
punishment
anxiety
pervert1
persecution
anguish
oppression
crucify
agony
torment2
tantalize
contort
反义参见:
console1
torture['tɔ:tʃə]n.1.■拷打,拷问;严刑,酷刑2.■折磨的手段;拷问的方法3.■折磨;痛苦;剧痛;苦恼4.■引起痛苦(或苦恼)的原因(或事物)5.■歪曲;曲解6.■破坏性试验vt.1.■拷打,拷问;动刑;虐待;拷打出:The secret police tortured him to obtain information.秘密警察拷问他以获取情报。They tortured the prisoner to death.他们将犯人拷打致死。2.■折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼:The student was tortured with anxiety.这个学生为焦虑所苦。He was tortured by guilt.他因内疚而感到痛苦。3.■歪曲;曲解(意见、论点等):They tortured my words.他们曲解了我的话。4.■使扭曲;使变形:the trees tortured by the wind被风刮弯的树近义词torment变形vt.torturedtorturing
torturetorture[ˈtɔ:tʃə]n.1.■拷问[打]; 刑讯2.■[常用复]折磨; 痛苦, 苦恼3.■猛烈的扭折, 打击suffer torture from因...受痛苦the tortures of jealousy妒忌的折磨
词性变化torture[ˈtɔ:tʃə]vt.1.■拷问[打]; (使受)折磨; 曲解(out of; into); 扭弯, 扭折
继承用法torturableadj.torturedlyadv.torturern.torturesomeadj.
词性变化torturingadj.1.■拷问的; 使受苦的; 使痛苦的torturous[ˈtɔ:tʃərəs]adj.1.■使痛苦的; 充满痛苦的; 苦恼的
参考词汇见torment;
noun
- [mass noun]the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something
酷刑;刑讯
■great physical or mental suffering or anxiety
(肉体或精神上的)折磨;忧虑
the torture I've gone through because of loving you so.
我因如此爱你而遭受的折磨。
■a cause of such suffering or anxiety
痛苦(或忧虑)的原因
dances were absolute torture because I was so small.
因为我个子太矮,所以跳舞成了件极痛苦的事。
- [with obj.]inflict severe pain on
拷打;使痛苦;折磨
most of the victims had been brutally tortured.
绝大多数受害者曾遭受酷刑。
■cause great mental suffering or anxiety to
造成精神上的巨大痛苦;使忧虑
he was tortured by grief.
他极为悲痛。
torturer
noun
语源
- late Middle English (in the sense 'distortion, twisting', or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura 'twisting, torment', from Latin torquere 'to twist'
torture
名词 torture:
extreme mental distress
unbearable physical pain
同义词:torment
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
同义词:distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
同义词:torturing
动词 torture:
torment emotionally or mentally
同义词:torment, excruciate, rack
subject to torture
同义词:excruciate, torment
torture
■Perversity "The human thrist for self torture.
" 反常即 - 人类对自虐的渴望.Edgar.Allan.
■Poor odie.He faces a future of torture...
|可怜的欧弟 他将面对一个充满折磨...
■Torture Cola is a dangerous game.
“沸腾可乐”是一种危险的游戏。
■A week with out smoking to me is a kind of torture.
一个星期不抽烟,对我来说是一种折磨。
■You will not hold up well under torture!
一拷问你就会招的!
■Losing everything, bit by bit, torture.
一点一点地、折磨人地失去每一样东西。
■The idea of a lifetime commitment to a certain job seems like torture.
一辈子就干一行的想法简直就是一种折磨。
■He would only confess under extreme torture.
不动大刑,他是不会招认的。
■Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly.
不该让你如此甜美地折磨我。
■The torture made him confess.
严刑拷打使他招供了。
■It is strictly forbidden to torture, insult or otherwise maltreat prisoners.
严禁对罪犯施加酷刑、侮辱和打骂虐待。
■Inquisition of the Medieval Ages devised many demoniac means of torture.
中世纪的宗教法庭创造了许多骇人听闻的酷刑。
■CIA Chief Says Torture Is Not Used by U.S.
中央情报局长称从不使用酷刑。
■Why do you delight to torture her?
为什麽你喜欢折磨她?
■Perhaps this is a "loss of the US" deliberate torture?
也许这亦是一种“美的消失”的故意折磨?
■It's not others that torture you, but youself that lack tolerance.
二、与其说是别人让妳痛苦,不如说自己的修养不够。
■He doesn't know the torture that will be visited on him.
他不知道即将遭受的折磨。
■Neither has he ever been complicit in the use of torture.
他也从未共谋参与虐行。
■They threatened revenge [every kind of torture].
他们威胁着要报复[使用各种酷刑]。
■They applied all sorts of torture to him.
他们对他使用了各种酷刑。
■They extorted a confession from him by torture.
他们对他进行刑讯逼供。
■They torture jeans, but for the sake of fashion.
他们恶整牛仔裤,无非为了流行的缘故。
■They put her to the torture.
他们拷问了她。
■They used a device which I call a torture trouser.
他们用一种装置,我管它叫一种折磨裤。
■They submit the prisoner to torture .
他们给这个囚犯动了刑。
■He was ready to face both death and torture.
他准备好面对死亡和酷刑。
■He was subjected to torture.
他受到了严刑拷打。
■He gave in when he was threatened with torture.
他在受到严刑威胁时投降了。
■The sight of his sick brother was an unbearable torture to him.
他弟弟生病的样子,对他是一种无法忍受的痛苦。
■He must make it to pianist Why torture of three months to challenge their own.
他必须向钢琴大师提出这三个月来何以不断折磨自己的质疑。
■He described the insulin shock as" torture," and blamed Stelazine for making him" foggy" (both true).
他把胰岛素引起的休克形容成是"酷刑",而把他的头脑不清醒归咎为三氟拉嗪(事实的确如此)。
■He had lied and lied, but each lie had come back to torture him.
他曾一再说谎,可是每一次说谎都自食苦果。
■His confessions were made under torture.
他被屈打成招。
■By giving me this burning torture to bear upon my breast!
他让我忍受这胸前灼烧的痛楚!
■He says people who torture other people are the scum of the earth.
他说那些折磨他人的人是世界上的渣滓。
■His scars bore witness to the torture he had suffered.
他身上的一处处伤痕证明他曾受到严刑拷打。
■He is highly skeptical of confessions obtained under torture.
他非常怀疑在严刑拷打下得到的招供。
■Before,I complained it was torture.
以前,我抱怨这是酷刑。
■Before, I complained it was torture.
以前,我知道上学是一种折磨。
■Psychopathic torture-muderers,with torture their primary motive.
以施虐为主要动机的病态虐杀者。
■Torture of any kind. I've used up my lifetime allotment.
任何一种折磨。我这辈子已经受够了。
■No torture would make him speak.
任何严刑拷打都不能使他开口。
■The wound festers during several days of torture.
伤口溃疡了,折腾了我好几天。
■However, there exists torture ever and again in legal practice because of the defection in legal system.
但是,由于我国现行法律制度不完善,实践中施用酷刑的行为时有发生。
■But such exquisite torture requires power!
但这种美妙的折磨需要力量!
■Ocelot: So you survived the colonel's torture, eh?
你从上校的拷问下捡回一条命了。
■Gosh, your guys will faint if I have to torture you with a close-up photo.
你的精神也不见得不好啊,摄影师可以尽可能的近一些,再近一些:)
■To inflict severe pain on; torture.
使痛苦使受剧烈的痛苦;折磨。
■To inflict severe pain on;torture.
使痛苦使受剧烈的痛苦;折磨
■The confession was extracted under torture by the police.
供认是警方严刑逼供得到的。