tormenting

英 [tɔːˈmentɪŋ]

美 [tɔːrˈmentɪŋ]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的现在分词

现在分词：tormenting　

BNC.48705 / COCA.39863

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

• Tormenting their teacher with silly questions.
  用愚蠢的问题烦扰老师。
• I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
  先生，我向你保证，这决没有冒充风雅，故意作弄一位有面子的绅士。
• She thrilled with these proofs of her power that proclaimed her a woman, and she took an Eve-like delight in tormenting him and playing upon him.
  她的威力的这种种表现宣布了她已是个女人，这使她激动欢喜。她也把抗磨和玩弄他当作快乐，像夏娃一样。
• I hear that the health care cost problem tormenting us is presently just beneath the political radar screen, for obvious reasons.
  由于显而易见的原因，我听说，让我们痛苦不堪的卫生保健支出问题目前不在政府的关注范围之内。
• The guards were accused of tormenting the prisoners.
  监狱看守被指控折磨囚犯。
• That it's no use to go on tormenting me!
  继续折磨我是没有用的！
• 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！
• In the novel of the scarlet letter, chillingworth becomes a devil tormenting his enemy crazily and without any pity from an honest, fair person, which has complex reasons.
  摘要在小说《红字》中，齐灵窝斯之所以由一个先前诚实、公正的人，变为毫无怜悯之心、疯狂折磨其仇人的恶魔，是有其复杂原因的。
• Stop tormenting your father with such silly questions!
  别用这种愚蠢的问题去纠缠你父亲了。
• I wasn't tormenting anyone.
  我没有欺负任何人。