tortures

英 [ˈtɔːtʃəz]

美 [ˈtɔːrtʃərz]

n.  拷打; 拷问; 酷刑; (精神上或肉体上的)折磨，痛苦; 折磨人的事物
v.  拷打; 拷问; 严刑逼供; 使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 使受煎熬
torture的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拷打;拷问;虐待
  If someoneis tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
  1. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
     法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
  2. Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
     该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
  3. They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
     他们再也没有当他的面严刑拷打过囚犯。
  4. Tortureis also a noun.
     
  5. ...alleged cases of torture and murder by the security forces...
     指控安全部队严刑拷问和谋杀的案例
  6. Many died under torture, others committed suicide…
     很多人被酷刑折磨致死，另一些人则选择了自杀。
  7. I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared.
     我还以为这是中世纪的酷刑，早已令人庆幸地不复存在了。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
  Totorturesomeone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
  1. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
     他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
  2. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
     她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。
• N-UNCOUNT 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
  If you say that something istortureor atorture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
  1. Waiting for the result was torture...
     等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
  2. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…
     被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。
  3. Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.
     学习——她一直喜欢的事情——变成了一种痛苦。

双语例句

• A barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks.
  野蛮的罪行；残忍的痛打；残忍的拷打；斯大林对富农的残忍对待；野蛮的攻击；野蛮的脚踢。
• There was an end to his tortures.
  他的磨难有尽头了。
• His parents died from tortures inflicted by their feudal lords.
  他的父母是被封建领主的酷刑折磨而死的。
• He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
  他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
• He grew so terrible, at last, in all the tortures of his evil conscience, that one man could not bear to sit there, eyeing him alone;
  末了，在歹心邪念的折磨下，他变得十分可怕，看守吓得不敢单独和他面对面坐在那里；
• Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
  关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
• She was put through the severest tortures, but not a word could the enemy wring from her.
  她受尽了酷刑，但敌人没能从她嘴里压出一句话。
• You have no idea of the tortures I am sentenced to undergo in Hell.
  你们不知道我在地府里遭受的折磨。
• In this cult-thriller, Laurence Olivier plays a war criminal turned dentist who tortures Dustin Hoffman by drilling through his dental nerves without anaesthetic.
  在这部惊悚片中，劳伦斯奥利弗（LaurenceOlivier）饰演的牙医曾是一名战犯，他用牙钻钻动着达斯汀霍夫曼（DustinHoffman）的牙神经，却不给他使用麻药。
• Saying no is also tortures the cat.
  这告诉人们，放弃也是痛苦的。