torture

torture

['tɔ:tʃə]

n.拷问, 痛苦
vt.拷问, 使痛苦, 曲解

例句与用法：

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。

词形变化：

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

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n.

1. 拷打, 酷刑; 拷问[U]

Many of the POWs died under torture.

许多战俘被折磨致死。

2. 折磨, 痛苦[C][U][(+of)][+to-v]

She suffered tortures from a toothache.

她受牙痛的折磨。

The sight of his sick brother was torture to him.

看到他生病的哥哥那副样子令他非常痛苦。

3. 歪曲; 扭曲[U]

vt.

1. 拷打; 拷问[O][O2]

The police tortured him to confess his crime.

警察拷打他, 逼他招供。

2. 折磨; 使为难[H][(+with/by)]

He was tortured with anxiety.

他为焦虑所苦。

3. 歪曲; 扭曲

Winds tortured the trees.

风把树吹得歪歪斜斜。