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torturing

torturing
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v.

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  • 英英释义

1. 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. 

  • 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。

  • They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.

    他们再也没有当他的面严刑拷打过囚犯。

  • Torture is also a noun.

    • ...alleged cases of torture and murder by the security forces...

      指控安全部队严刑拷问和谋杀的案例

    • Many died under torture, others committed suicide…

      很多人被酷刑折磨致死，另一些人则选择了自杀。

    • I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared.

      我还以为这是中世纪的酷刑，早已令人庆幸地不复存在了。

2. VERB 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼 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。

3. 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. 

  • 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。

  • Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.

    学习——她一直喜欢的事情——变成了一种痛苦。

Noun

1. the act of torturing someone;

  • "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
Adjective

1. extremely painful