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

• Bob often torments his teachers with silly questions.
  鲍伯常以无聊的问题来困扰老。
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• All the sinners break wholly away the torments together, who have all developed the Supreme Bodhi-Citta.
  一切罪人。俱得离苦。皆发无上菩提心。
• Down with that great all, which torments me!
  打倒那个惹人厌烦的万物之主！
• But for my aid, his life would have burned away in torments, within the first two years after the perpetration of his crime and thine.
  要不是我假以援手，他和你犯下罪孽之后的头两年里，他的生命便会在备受折磨之中烧光了。
• The cover couldn't be more explicative! Is this the door to life and joy or isn't it more true that it's the door to hell and its torments?
  这张唱片的封面不能再极端了！这是通向生活和享受的大门吗？或者它不也是更真实的通往地狱和苦痛的大门？
• 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。
• 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。
• Torments have been terminated by me.
  煎熬，被我终结了。
• You will end each life in suffering under the butcher's knife, as just compensation for the torments you caused innocent living creatures.
  你每一世都会痛苦地在屠刀下死去，这是你造成那些无辜动物死亡的报应。