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

• 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。
• But it torments me less as a mother to see you die in agony in the arms of god.
  但作为母亲我希望你死在上帝的怀里。
• 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。
• But since she only torments me with international politics, I can only remark: What a tiresome off-the-spot old woman!
  可是既然她只会拿国际政治来折磨我，我只能说：真是个离题太远的讨厌的老太婆！
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• A person who torments others.
  折磨人使人痛苦的人。
• The Rockets blew a17-point third-quarter lead, but that was not the lost lead that torments them now.
  对决小牛，第三节火箭领先17分，但最后还是输了，可这还不是最让他们闹心的地方。
• 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。
• The prisoners would soon suffer worse worse torments.
  囚犯们很快就要遭受更为残酷的折磨。
• 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。