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

• Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill-people's pain and saving them from the tortures of their illness.
  安乐死是一种解除病人痛苦，从疾病的折磨中拯救他们的方法。
• Miss Glover suffered terribly from nervousness, and the notion of broaching so delicated a subject caused her indescribable tortures.
  格洛弗小姐由于神经紧张而极度痛苦，那种认为要对非常棘手的问题担风险的想法使她感到有说不出的苦恼。
• Saying no is also tortures the cat.
  这告诉人们，放弃也是痛苦的。
• You'd be in here, suffering the tortures of the damned with those guys.
  你就该在这里忍受那帮家伙的折磨。
• When they indignantly rejected that proposition, the Army continued with its horrible tortures.
  他们愤怒地拒绝这种条件，军队就继续施加可怕的酷刑。
• You always have a day to enduring because of your tortures.
  你总有一天会因你的邪恶而受罪。
• 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；
• Guns, bombs, mines and tortures.
  枪支、炸弹、地雷与酷刑。
• Macabre stories about tortures conceived by a madman.
  关于由一个疯子构想出来的可怕故事。