torture

音标['tɒ:tʃә]

汉语翻译

n. 拷问, 苦闷
vt. 拷问, 曲解, 折磨, 使弯曲
【法】拷问, 拷打, 刑讯
相关词组:
be in torture

torture词型变化

名词:torturer 动词过去式:tortured 过去分词:tortured 现在分词:torturing 第三人称单数:tortures

torture词意辨析

agony, anguish, torment, torture, grief, misery, distress, sorrow

这些名词均有“苦恼、痛苦”之意。
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。

torture英语解释

名词 torture:

extreme mental distress
同义词：anguish, torment
unbearable physical pain
同义词：torment
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
同义词：agony, torment
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例句

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。