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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

  • 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!
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Nothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news.
    我们在等待消息时精神上所受到的痛苦是无法描绘的。
  • The prisoners would soon suffer worse worse torments.
    囚犯们很快就要遭受更为残酷的折磨。
  • My hard heart has doomed me to suffer the torments of Hell.
    我的残忍的心注定我要受到地狱的折磨。
  • 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。
  • 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。