tortures

英 [ˈtɔːtʃəz]

美 [ˈtɔːrtʃərz]

n.  拷打; 拷问; 酷刑; (精神上或肉体上的)折磨，痛苦; 折磨人的事物
v.  拷打; 拷问; 严刑逼供; 使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 使受煎熬
torture的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拷打;拷问;虐待
  If someoneis tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
  1. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
     法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
  2. Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
     该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
  3. 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。
  4. Tortureis also a noun.
     
  5. ...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
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
  Totorturesomeone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
  1. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
     他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
  2. 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 istortureor atorture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
  1. Waiting for the result was torture...
     等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。

双语例句

• His parents died from tortures inflicted by their feudal lords.
  他的父母是被封建领主的酷刑折磨而死的。
• Guns, bombs, mines and tortures Form its massive sound But, within its power, within its might And within its fearful threats Peace is not to be found If we kill people, with whom will we live?
  枪支、炸弹、地雷与酷刑惊天动地但，在其力量中，在其威力中，在其骇人的威胁中，我们无法觅得和平。如果我们杀人，我们身边还将有谁？
• Saying no is also tortures the cat.
  这告诉人们，放弃也是痛苦的。
• Horrible images of ancient tortures flashed across my mind. I imagined my brother being electrocuted, his body jumping in the air from the shocks administered by strangers.
  古代刑讯的可怕景象闪过我的心头，我想象着弟弟受到了电刑，他的身体受到陌生人操纵的电击而弹到了空中。
• He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
  他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
• You are Chinese quantifiers tortures, as we were also English tenses tormenting!
  你被中文的量词折磨着，同样我们也被英文的时态折磨着！
• She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
  她为风湿痛所苦。
• He grew so terrible, at last, in all the tortures of his evil conscience, that one man could not bear to sit there, eyeing him alone;
  末了，在歹心邪念的折磨下，他变得十分可怕，看守吓得不敢单独和他面对面坐在那里；
• Why is it so many good, kind religious people suffer the tortures of the damned in their mind and body?
  为什么这么多良善信教的人们身心都受到邪祟的折磨？
• In this cult-thriller, Laurence Olivier plays a war criminal turned dentist who tortures Dustin Hoffman by drilling through his dental nerves without anaesthetic.
  在这部惊悚片中，劳伦斯奥利弗（LaurenceOlivier）饰演的牙医曾是一名战犯，他用牙钻钻动着达斯汀霍夫曼（DustinHoffman）的牙神经，却不给他使用麻药。