tortures

英 [ˈtɔːtʃəz]

美 [ˈtɔːrtʃərz]

n.  拷打; 拷问; 酷刑; (精神上或肉体上的)折磨，痛苦; 折磨人的事物
v.  拷打; 拷问; 严刑逼供; 使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 使受煎熬
torture的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 拷打;拷问;虐待
  If someoneis tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
  1. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
     法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
  2. Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
     该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
  3. They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence.
     他们再也没有当他的面严刑拷打过囚犯。
  4. Tortureis also a noun.
     
  5. ...alleged cases of torture and murder by the security forces...
     指控安全部队严刑拷问和谋杀的案例
  6. Many died under torture, others committed suicide…
     很多人被酷刑折磨致死，另一些人则选择了自杀。
  7. I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared.
     我还以为这是中世纪的酷刑，早已令人庆幸地不复存在了。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
  Totorturesomeone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
  1. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
     他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
  2. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
     她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。
• N-UNCOUNT 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
  If you say that something istortureor atorture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
  1. Waiting for the result was torture...
     等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
  2. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…
     被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。
  3. Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.
     学习——她一直喜欢的事情——变成了一种痛苦。

双语例句

• She was put through the severest tortures, but not a word could the enemy wring from her.
  她受尽了酷刑，但敌人没能从她嘴里压出一句话。
• Macabre stories about tortures conceived by a madman.
  关于由一个疯子构想出来的可怕故事。
• Guns, bombs, mines and tortures Form its massive sound But, within its power, within its might And within its fearful threats Peace is not to be found If we kill people, with whom will we live?
  枪支、炸弹、地雷与酷刑惊天动地但，在其力量中，在其威力中，在其骇人的威胁中，我们无法觅得和平。如果我们杀人，我们身边还将有谁？
• You have no idea of the tortures I am sentenced to undergo in Hell.
  你们不知道我在地府里遭受的折磨。
• Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness and try his patience.
  来罢！我们用耻辱和酷刑试验他，查看他是否温良，考验他是否忍耐。
• There was an end to his tortures.
  他的磨难有尽头了。
• Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill-people's pain and saving them from the tortures of their illness.
  安乐死是一种解除病人痛苦，从疾病的折磨中拯救他们的方法。
• He maintains that God knows that he is not wicked, and yet tortures him.
  他坚持认为，上帝知道，他不是邪恶的，但折磨他。
• He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
  他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
• His parents died from tortures inflicted by their feudal lords.
  他的父母是被封建领主的酷刑折磨而死的。