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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A person who torments others.
  折磨人使人痛苦的人。
• F.God will require unbelievers to have "horrified" bodies that are hideous, disgusting and suffer all the terrible pains and torments of sin forever.
  上帝给非信徒一个“恐怖”的身体，他们是丑陋的、令人讨厌的，要永远经历可怕的疼痛和难以忍受的罪的折磨。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He suffered torments from a bad burn.
  他因严重烧伤而受痛苦。