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
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  1. VERB 拷打;拷问;虐待
    If someone is 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. Torture is 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。
  2. VERB 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
    To torture someone 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。
  3. N-UNCOUNT 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
    If you say that something is torture or a torture, 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。
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双语例句

  1. Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
    关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
  2. If there is a cause that cries out for protest in the world today, peaceful protest, it is a regime that tortures children and shoots rockets at apartment buildings.
    如果今天世界有一个原因要呼吁抗议，和平抗议，那就是因为有一个政权在折磨儿童，在向住宅公寓发射火箭。
  3. 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？
  4. In this cult-thriller, Laurence Olivier plays a war criminal turned dentist who tortures Dustin Hoffman by drilling through his dental nerves without anaesthetic.
    在这部惊悚片中，劳伦斯奥利弗（LaurenceOlivier）饰演的牙医曾是一名战犯，他用牙钻钻动着达斯汀霍夫曼（DustinHoffman）的牙神经，却不给他使用麻药。
  5. Guns, bombs, mines and tortures.
    枪支、炸弹、地雷与酷刑。
  6. You'd be in here, suffering the tortures of the damned with those guys.
    你就该在这里忍受那帮家伙的折磨。
  7. 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。
  8. 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！
  9. Macabre stories about tortures conceived by a madman.
    关于由一个疯子构想出来的可怕故事。
  10. Horrible images of ancient tortures flashed across my mind. I imagined my brother being electrocuted, his body jumping in the air from the shocks administered by strangers.
    古代刑讯的可怕景象闪过我的心头，我想象着弟弟受到了电刑，他的身体受到陌生人操纵的电击而弹到了空中。
  11. 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。
  12. Why is it so many good, kind religious people suffer the tortures of the damned in their mind and body?
    为什么这么多良善信教的人们身心都受到邪祟的折磨？
  13. He grew so terrible, at last, in all the tortures of his evil conscience, that one man could not bear to sit there, eyeing him alone;
    末了，在歹心邪念的折磨下，他变得十分可怕，看守吓得不敢单独和他面对面坐在那里；
  14. There was an end to his tortures.
    他的磨难有尽头了。
  15. Good God captain! Those are humans floating straight toward the Borg ship with no life support suits! How can they survive the tortures of deep space?
    老天哪，舰长！那些是没穿太空装的人类，直接飘往博格人的船去了！他们怎麽能在外太空中生存？
  16. Saying no is also tortures the cat.
    这告诉人们，放弃也是痛苦的。
  17. She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
    她为风湿痛所苦。
  18. Roman citizens have, like slaves, been put to death with tortures.
    他把罗马公民象奴隶一样施以酷刑处死。
  19. He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
    他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
  20. 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。
  21. Miss Glover suffered terribly from nervousness, and the notion of broaching so delicated a subject caused her indescribable tortures.
    格洛弗小姐由于神经紧张而极度痛苦，那种认为要对非常棘手的问题担风险的想法使她感到有说不出的苦恼。
  22. When they indignantly rejected that proposition, the Army continued with its horrible tortures.
    他们愤怒地拒绝这种条件，军队就继续施加可怕的酷刑。
  23. 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。
  24. Martyrs are men and women who for the sake of their faith endure cruel tortures and sometimes even more gruesome death.
    殉教者是信教的男女为了自己的信仰忍受残酷的折磨，甚至比折磨更可怕的死刑而献身的人。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. In China there is no accusation of such a crime in the Criminal Law but there are some panel punishments on relevant performances similar to savage tortures.
    我国刑法虽然没有规定酷刑罪的罪名，但就属于酷刑罪的一些行为作出了罪刑规定。
  28. You always have a day to enduring because of your tortures.
    你总有一天会因你的邪恶而受罪。
  29. A barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks.
    野蛮的罪行；残忍的痛打；残忍的拷打；斯大林对富农的残忍对待；野蛮的攻击；野蛮的脚踢。
  30. He tortures him by allowing the monitor to shock him back every time he passes out.
    马宏拷打着怀亚特使他昏死过去，然后又用心脏起博救醒他。
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