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

• Down with that great all, which torments me!
  打倒那个惹人厌烦的万物之主！
• Bob often torments his teachers with silly questions.
  鲍伯常以无聊的问题来困扰老。
• We pray for strength and humility, and some messenger of Satan torments us until we lie in the dust crying for its removal.
  我们求能力和谦卑，神却给我们撒但的苦害。直到我们躺在尘土里求告他。
• 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。
• 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。
• But do not think that our race has been abandoned by God. 17Wait, and you shall see his great power when he torments you and your descendants.
  不过不要以为天主已经离弃了我们的民族。17你等着看吧！看他的大能是如何惩罚你和你的子孙的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• 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？