torture

单词torture

基本解释

n.: 酷刑；拷打；拷问；痛苦
v.: 拷打；拷问；严刑逼供；使痛苦
网络: 折磨；虐待；刑讯

权威解释

• 拷打；拷问；酷刑:

  the act of causing sb severe pain in order to punish them or make them say or do sth

• （精神上或肉体上的）折磨，痛苦；折磨人的事物:

  mental or physical suffering; sth that causes this

• 拷打；拷问；严刑逼供:

  to hurt sb physically or mentally in order to punish them or make them tell you sth

• 使痛苦；使苦恼；使焦急；使受煎熬:

  to make sb feel extremely unhappy or anxious

英汉解释

• 歪曲

• 啮蚀

• 折磨;拼命地熬住

• 拷问,拷打;折磨;使痛苦;曲解(法律条文等); 扭弯,扭折

• 剧痛

• 压迫

• 濒死苦闷

• 拷问;严刑

• 折磨;痛苦,苦恼

• 酷刑,严刑拷打

词性分析

• 过去分词：tortured

• 现在分词：torturing

• 第三人称单数：tortures

单词搭配

• v.+n.:

  use torture

同义词

v.tormentafflictpersecutebrutalizepunishn.anguishagonypainsufferingdistress

例句

• opposed to any application of the death penalty and torture of prisoners, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

  反对对任何囚犯实施死刑和酷刑，或其他残忍、不人道或侮辱性的待遇或惩罚。

• If you"re the kind of person who thrives when interacting with other people, sitting alone in a cubicle all day can be absolute torture.

  如果你擅长与人交往，那么一个人成天呆在办公室会十分地痛苦。cubicle一个大的办公室内间隔起来的个人办公区域，很小。

• In the night terrible dreams had broken his sleep, and made it a long torture.

  在可怕的梦打破了他的睡眠，使之成为长期的酷刑。

• At least that"s the talk this week as the judges up the torture quotient, taking train-wreck TV viewing to a whole new level.

  至少这讲座本周起酷刑商数作为法官，同时列车电视收看到毁掉整个新水平。

• What"s a musician to do when he finds out that his music may have been used to torture people?

  当一个音乐人发现自己的音乐可能被用来拷问和折磨别人的时候他会有何反应？

• And yet, torture is still practised or tolerated by many States. Impunity persists for the perpetrators. The victims continue to suffer.

  然而，在许多国家，酷刑依然存在或得到容忍。施加酷刑者依然不受惩罚。受害者继续忍受痛苦。

• Torture was formerly used to make people give evidence about crimes, or to make them confess.

  酷刑拷打原本用来逼迫受刑者给出犯罪证据，或是认罪。

• It is not to torture or kill its own ethnic nationals and was not formed to be used for an individual group or any dictator.

  （所以，我认为，）军队绝不是用来对自己的少数民族同胞实施折磨或者杀戮的，军队绝不是为了某个个体组织或者任何一个独裁者而被组建的。

• He had abandoned wish of saving him, and was no longer disposed to retard the more serious part of the torture.

  他不再想挽救他，不打算再拦阻对他施用更严酷的刑罚了。

• She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.

  她对俄国扶持的车臣领导嗤之以鼻，她指责他们打着苦难和绑架的幌子掠夺重建资金。