tormenting

英 [tɔːˈmentɪŋ] 美 [tɔːrˈmentɪŋ]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的现在分词

现在分词：tormenting

BNC.48705 / COCA.39863

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/。

  1. N-UNCOUNT 极度痛苦；苦恼万分；折磨
    Torment is 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。
  2. N-COUNT 使人痛苦的事;折磨人的事
    A torment is 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。
  3. VERB 折磨;使痛苦万分
    If something torments you, 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。
  4. VERB 戏弄;作弄
    If you torment a 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。
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双语例句

  1. The very act of concentration seemed to make me more wakeful than ever, and I would pass hours in tormenting sleeplessness.
    高度集中的精力让我比任何时候都清醒，我不得不在折磨人的失眠中捱过几个钟头。
  2. She thrilled with these proofs of her power that proclaimed her a woman, and she took an Eve-like delight in tormenting him and playing upon him.
    她的威力的这种种表现宣布了她已是个女人，这使她激动欢喜。她也把抗磨和玩弄他当作快乐，像夏娃一样。
  3. The study discovered that certain pain-associated words such as` tormenting` or` gruelling` stimulate the pain area of the brain-even when no pain is actually administered.
    研究人员发现，人们听到一些与疼痛相关的词汇（例如痛苦的、折磨人的）时，脑部与痛感相关的区域会被激活&即便这些痛感并非实际存在也会让人产生疼痛感。
  4. The professor found as soon as we hear words like "tormenting"," gruelling "or" plaguing", the exact areas in the brain that deal with pain are activated.
    教授还发现，只要我们听到类似痛苦的、折磨人的、苦恼的的词汇，大脑中的这个相关区域就立刻被激活。
  5. I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
    先生，我向你保证，这决没有冒充风雅，故意作弄一位有面子的绅士。
  6. Although lower than in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the inflation rate is tormenting a country accustomed to near zero inflation.
    这个数字虽然低于卡塔尔和阿联酋，却令习惯了通胀率接近于零的沙特苦恼万分。
  7. I wasn't tormenting anyone.
    我没有欺负任何人。
  8. He were a child tormenting a dog.
    就像小孩子拿只狗折腾取乐似的。
  9. Stop tormenting that poor dog!
    别再戏弄那只可怜的狗了！
  10. The bigger kids keep tormenting him.
    那些大一些的孩子一直在作弄他。
  11. You are Chinese quantifiers tortures, as we were also English tenses tormenting!
    你被中文的量词折磨着，同样我们也被英文的时态折磨着！
  12. Arrrgh! Li Hua, you really do get a kick out of tormenting me. I'll never get wasted for the rest of my life. I promise.
    我只是开个玩笑而已。不过，我倒是希望你这辈子再也不要喝那麽多酒了！
  13. The older children would delight in tormenting him.
    年龄大些的孩子捉弄他取乐。
  14. The guards were accused of tormenting the prisoners.
    监狱看守被指控折磨囚犯。
  15. I hear that the health care cost problem tormenting us is presently just beneath the political radar screen, for obvious reasons.
    由于显而易见的原因，我听说，让我们痛苦不堪的卫生保健支出问题目前不在政府的关注范围之内。
  16. In the novel of the scarlet letter, chillingworth becomes a devil tormenting his enemy crazily and without any pity from an honest, fair person, which has complex reasons.
    摘要在小说《红字》中，齐灵窝斯之所以由一个先前诚实、公正的人，变为毫无怜悯之心、疯狂折磨其仇人的恶魔，是有其复杂原因的。
  17. If she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!
    如果她愿走，她可以走；她在我跟前所引起的我的厌恶已经超过我折磨她时所得到的满足了。
  18. China is tormenting us already with non-tariff trade barriers.
    他说：中国已经开始用非关税贸易壁垒折磨我们。
  19. Seeing this, Lily gathered her courage and asked him what had been tormenting her all last night.
    于是，莉莉鼓起勇气向男孩发问。这问题前一天晚上已令她饱受煎熬。
  20. An irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up te wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles& Thomas Hood, British humorist and poet.
    易怒之人就像一个反着卷曲过来的刺猬，用自己的刺折磨自己&托马斯。胡德，英国幽默作家和诗人。
  21. A piercing mournful wail cut through the air, as if intent on tormenting the weak of heart.
    一阵尖锐的、凄惨的叫声在空中盘旋了一阵，好像故意在绞痛这些人的脆弱的心。
  22. People say he was killed falsely, so he is tormenting my father.
    人们说他是被误杀的，他的死使我父亲很痛苦。
  23. He cared neither for food nor drink, but lay still on his bed, full of tormenting thoughts.
    他茶不思，饭不想，愁肠满怀，只一动不动地躺在床上。
  24. That it's no use to go on tormenting me!
    继续折磨我是没有用的！
  25. When I scolded the child for tormenting the kitten, he answered me back as coolly as you like," go away, it's not your cat and you're not my mummy. "
    当我责骂那个孩子折磨小猫时，他倒若无其事地回答说：“你走开！这不是你的猫；你又不是我妈。”
  26. Stop tormenting your father with such silly questions!
    别用这种愚蠢的问题去纠缠你父亲了。
  27. Tormenting their teacher with silly questions.
    用愚蠢的问题烦扰老师。
  28. Stop tormenting her with your silly questions.
    别再用你那些愚蠢问题烦她了。
  29. So this is why you've been tormenting me since last night.
    难怪你从昨晚开始就折磨我。
  30. You are in my very soul tormenting me.
    你在我的灵魂深处折磨着我。
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