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

• 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。
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• A person who torments others.
  折磨人使人痛苦的人。
• 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。
• 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！
• These days, more than ever, facing and embracing your worst-case scenarios, seeing them as problems to be solved rather than torments to suffer helplessly, can save you no end of self-sabotage.
  如今，以往任何似乎后，面临和拥抱你最糟糕的情况，将它们看成是待解决的问题，而不是无助地去承受的折磨，这能让你终止无止境的自我破坏。
• 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。
• He suffered torments from an aching tooth.
  他忍受着牙痛的折磨。
• And where the mind is never free from the torments of remorse.
  你的心灵永远无法从悔恨的折磨中解脱。
• 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。