tormented

英 [tɔːˈmentɪd]

美 [tɔːrˈmentɪd]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：tormented　过去式：tormented　

BNC.21641 / COCA.20721

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

• Little is more depriving than a tormented mind.
  很少有比精神饱受折磨更惨重的损失了。
• He struggled through the swamp, tormented by mosquitoes and leeches.
  他在蚊子和水蛭的骚扰下挣扎着走过了沼泽地。
• I tormented myself with the thought that life was just too comfortable
  一想到生活太过舒适了，我内心就很痛苦。
• He was tormented with the stings of conscience.
  他感到良心苛责的痛苦。
• Fear and hate warred within her and tormented her.
  恐惧和憎恨在她内心深处斗争着，折磨着她。
• I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
  我因一直渴望着遥遥无期的事情而倍受折磨。
• These three awful nights, I've never closed my lids& and oh, I've been tormented!
  这可怕的三个夜晚，我就没阖眼&啊，我受尽了折磨！
• He was a tormented boy.
  他是个痛苦的男孩。
• Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured.
  撒旦带比尔到一个火海边，里边有千百万可怜的灵魂在备受折磨和煎熬。
• It has all the ingredients to hold a person's tormented soul: misery, confinement and fear.
  这里有着所有能让灵魂受尽折磨的东西：痛苦，监禁和恐惧。