torments

英 [tɔːˈments]

美 [tɔːrˈments]

n.  (尤指精神上的)折磨，痛苦; 苦难之源
v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

The noun is pronounced /'tɔːment/. The verb is pronounced /tɔː'ment/. 名词读作/'tɔːment/。动词读作 /tɔː'ment/。


• N-UNCOUNT 极度痛苦；苦恼万分；折磨
  Tormentis extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
     因孩子被绑架所受的万分折磨全写在她脸上。
  2. He spent days in torment while the police searched for his stolen car.
     在警方搜寻他遭窃汽车的同时，他在极度苦恼中过了好些天。
• N-COUNT 使人痛苦的事;折磨人的事
  Atormentis something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer...
     或早或晚，大多数作家最终都会著书讲述身为作家的苦恼。
  2. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
     在户外，蚊子和蠓虫永远让人不得安生。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦万分
  If somethingtormentsyou, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
  1. At times the memories returned to torment her...
     有时，她再度想起往事，又会痛苦万分。
  2. He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy.
     他彻夜未眠，深受嫉妒的折磨。
• VERB 戏弄;作弄
  If youtormenta person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.
  1. My older brother and sister used to torment me by singing it to me.
     哥哥姐姐以前常唱那首歌来戏弄我。

双语例句

• But for my aid, his life would have burned away in torments, within the first two years after the perpetration of his crime and thine.
  要不是我假以援手，他和你犯下罪孽之后的头两年里，他的生命便会在备受折磨之中烧光了。
• You will end each life in suffering under the butcher's knife, as just compensation for the torments you caused innocent living creatures.
  你每一世都会痛苦地在屠刀下死去，这是你造成那些无辜动物死亡的报应。
• That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
  因为我有五个兄弟，叫他警告他们，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。
• In the midst of his torments, and long before this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes.
  在那些苦恼的时日里，长期以来，他早已中断了他的工作，而中断工作正是最危险不过的，这是一种习惯的消逝。
• My hard heart has doomed me to suffer the torments of Hell.
  我的残忍的心注定我要受到地狱的折磨。
• We pray for strength and humility, and some messenger of Satan torments us until we lie in the dust crying for its removal.
  我们求能力和谦卑，神却给我们撒但的苦害。直到我们躺在尘土里求告他。
• Dr Chilton does enjoy his petty torments.
  切尔顿医生真享受他得意的折磨。
• Torments have been terminated by me.
  煎熬，被我终结了。
• I can no longer bring myself to embrace its torments and its aspirations.
  我不再能让我自己去拥抱它的折磨与它的热望。
• Unable to endure such torments, she came to an untimely end.
  她经不住这样的熬煎，过早地离开了人世。