torture
美 [ˈtɔrtʃər] 
英 [ˈtɔː(r)tʃə(r)]
- n.酷刑；拷打；拷问；痛苦
- v.拷打；拷问；严刑逼供；使痛苦
- 网络折磨；虐待；刑讯
词形变化
第三人称单数：tortures 现在分词：torturing 过去式：tortured 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 拷打；拷问；酷刑the act of causing sb severe pain in order to punish them or make them say or do sth |
| Many of the refugees have suffered torture. 许多难民都遭受过拷打。 |
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| terrible instruments of torture 可怕的刑讯工具 |
| His confessions were made under torture . 他被屈打成招。 |
| I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons. 我听说过监狱里令人毛骨悚然的刑讯。 |
2. |
（精神上或肉体上的）折磨，痛苦；折磨人的事物mental or physical suffering; sth that causes this |
| The interview was sheer torture from start to finish. 这次面试从头至尾使人备受煎熬。 |
1. | 拷打；拷问；严刑逼供to hurt sb physically or mentally in order to punish them or make them tell you sth |
| Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police. 反叛者中许多人被捕并遭受到秘密警察的酷刑。 |
| He was tortured into giving them the information. 他受不住酷刑被迫向他们供出了情报。 |
2. | ~ sb 使痛苦；使苦恼；使焦急；使受煎熬to make sb feel extremely unhappy or anxious |
| He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood. 童年的记忆使他痛苦了一辈子。 |
英汉解释
n. | |
v. | 1. 拷问,拷打;折磨;使痛苦;曲解(法律条文等) (out of; into);扭弯,扭折 |
英英解释
例句
opposed to any application of the death penalty and torture of prisoners, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
反对对任何囚犯实施死刑和酷刑，或其他残忍、不人道或侮辱性的待遇或惩罚。
If you're the kind of person who thrives when interacting with other people, sitting alone in a cubicle all day can be absolute torture.
如果你擅长与人交往，那么一个人成天呆在办公室会十分地痛苦。cubicle一个大的办公室内间隔起来的个人办公区域，很小。
In the night terrible dreams had broken his sleep, and made it a long torture.
在可怕的梦打破了他的睡眠，使之成为长期的酷刑。
At least that's the talk this week as the judges up the torture quotient, taking train-wreck TV viewing to a whole new level.
至少这讲座本周起酷刑商数作为法官，同时列车电视收看到毁掉整个新水平。
What's a musician to do when he finds out that his music may have been used to torture people?
当一个音乐人发现自己的音乐可能被用来拷问和折磨别人的时候他会有何反应？
And yet, torture is still practised or tolerated by many States. Impunity persists for the perpetrators. The victims continue to suffer.
然而，在许多国家，酷刑依然存在或得到容忍。施加酷刑者依然不受惩罚。受害者继续忍受痛苦。
Torture was formerly used to make people give evidence about crimes, or to make them confess.
酷刑拷打原本用来逼迫受刑者给出犯罪证据，或是认罪。
It is not to torture or kill its own ethnic nationals and was not formed to be used for an individual group or any dictator.
（所以，我认为，）军队绝不是用来对自己的少数民族同胞实施折磨或者杀戮的，军队绝不是为了某个个体组织或者任何一个独裁者而被组建的。
He had abandoned wish of saving him, and was no longer disposed to retard the more serious part of the torture.
他不再想挽救他，不打算再拦阻对他施用更严酷的刑罚了。
She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.
她对俄国扶持的车臣领导嗤之以鼻，她指责他们打着苦难和绑架的幌子掠夺重建资金。
Miraculously, she survived years of prison and torture and began searching for her son.
奇迹般地从多年监禁和折磨中活过来以后，她开始寻找儿子。
ChenLiGong believe I can survive the torture, her teeth were dial the out, she said I could make it through the pass is due to ChongFeng.
陈丽红置信本人能挺过酷刑，她的牙齿被拨了出来，她说本人能熬过这一关是由于崇奉。
To have secured my acquittal by such means would have been a life-long torture to me.
假使通过这种手段使自己获判无罪，对于我将是永生的折磨。
He said, "Some of these crew members may be subjected to the physical and mental torture. "
他说，“这些船员中有些人可能经受了身体和精神上的折磨。”
Forcing the body is not self-torture, do not eat not sleep at times may seem extreme, but it has its value.
强迫身体并不是自我折磨，不吃不睡有时看起来似乎很极端，但它却有其价值。
It seemed so foreign to his pain that he failed to understand his torture of the five previous nights.
现在这牙看起来和他的牙疼没啥关系，真搞不懂之前五个晚上怎么就在受它的折磨。
make it a protection for me from the Hell-Fire, from punishment and from torture in the Hereafter.
让它成为我免于后世火狱，惩罚和折磨的盾牌吧。
It is often elucidated that the prisoner died from cruel torture in prison. The traditional viewpoint isn't consistent with related records.
传统观点认为“考竟”是犯人受拷问死在狱中，与史籍中的有关记载不能吻合。
He said the use of torture reflected America "losing our moral bearings" .
他说刑讯逼供反映出美国‘正在失去我们的道德观念’。
If I can 'see' such a world, is also worthy of death, fate is always so why torture me?
要是我也能‘看’一眼这样的世界，死也值得，为何命运总是这样折磨我呀？
After years of social torture, the family emigrated to the United States in 1938.
在经受多年的社会压迫之后，他们全家于1938年迁移到美国。
I've been the sport of that intolerable torture!
我总是被那种不可容忍的折磨所捉弄！
All the evidence was obtained under torture, it was worthless.
所有证据都是在严刑拷打下获得的，因此它毫无价值。
It was impossible to bear such torture.
这苦痛委实难以忍受。
It's sheer torture.
这是十足的磨难。
He talked rather shyly, hesitatingly, as though it were torture to him to speak and yet he was forced to by some inner passion.
他讲话腼腼腆腆、犹犹豫豫，好象发言对他是一种折磨，而某种内在的激情又迫使他非讲不可。
And we seem to have no qualifications to torture the public to get used to, as often we are doing!
而且我们好像也没资格去拷问公众得习惯，很多时候我们也是那样做得！
It would be better to pull the plug on him than to keep his life in such a torture.
与其让他在这种折磨中敬且偷生，不如让他安乐死去。
But the dark side, the journals reveal, was just how much Gray himself was tortured with, well, self-torture.
但是这些日记揭露的黑暗面则展示了格雷是如何被“自我折磨”所折磨着的。
Loansharking what ah, I have nothing to do with the matter, do not know why I have to torture ?
什么高利贷啊，都与我无关的事情，可不知道为什么都来折磨我？
I would not change my present situation for that of my accusers, to escape all that torture can inflict upon me.
我不会将我目前的立场改变成我的告发者的，去逃避加之于我的种种苦刑。
Shen was terrified, but there was nothing she could do to stop the torture that Mrs. Gu created for herself by years of mistreating animals.
沈怕极了，但是她又不能停止古夫人的痛苦。那是她多年虐待动物造成的。
A hearing has been delayed for some of the suspects accused in a week-long torture of a West Virginia woman.
针对六名被控告曾虐待一西弗吉尼亚妇女长达一周的嫌疑犯的听证会被一拖再拖。
Torture her as they did, the enemy got nothing out of her.
虽然敌人拷打她，却没有能从她嘴里得到什么。
In ancient times however, tickling was used as a form of torture -- goats would lick salt off the bottom of a person's foot.
然而，在古代挠痒痒被用作一种折磨人的刑法，在一个人的脚底抹上盐，让山羊来舔。
There have been a few honourable exceptions in the upper chamber, notably John McCain's interventions on the use of torture.
（但是也）存在几个在上议院值得尊敬的反对意见，特别是约翰麦凯恩在通过利用拷问上的干涉。
Through a mirror in the wall Christine watched her lover in the torture room. Behind her Erik stood, with his hands on her arms.
透过墙里的镜子克丽斯廷看着在拷问室里的她的情人。她的身后站着埃里克，他的双手放在她的手臂上。
In questions where freedom is involved it is not necessary to seek for the truth by the torture of those whose status is in dispute.
在涉及自由问题时，如果当事人的社会地位有争议，则不必通过拷问来寻求真相。
The US developed its own definition of torture and began transporting captives to ghost prisons and a little-known military base in Cuba.
美国发展了自己对“酷刑”一词的定义，并开始将俘虏送到幽灵监狱（ghostprison）和一个位于古巴的鲜为人知的军事基地。
Brutality becomes my appetite Violence is now a way of life The sledge my tool to torture As it pounds down on your forehead!
现在我渴望着残忍与野蛮的行径，暴力也是一种生活，大锤是我虐杀你的工具，用它来捣碎你的脑门！
He said he had been reduced to a "human wreck" by torture he had undergone in a Cairo jail.
四年后他被无罪释放。他说他在开罗的一家监狱里被酷刑折磨成了一具行尸走肉。
It went on for a few days; then he was told that they will torture my mother in front of him on the following day.
接了几天；然后他被告知，他们将酷刑的母亲在他前面的第二天。
However, in his mind, those concerns do not outweigh the impact of the torture on the animals used for cosmetics testing.
然而，在他的观点中，这些都比不上化妆品实验中对动物的折磨更重要。
But it had shown "breathtaking legal obfuscation" by its efforts to weaken international standards "absolutely prohibiting" torture.
但美国政府弱化“绝对禁止”折磨的国际标准的行为，显示出“令人吃惊的法律困惑”。
The pretty embroidered shoe is no longer anything but an instrument of torture which eternally crushes the heart of the mother.
那绣花小鞋变得只不过是一种永远使母亲心痛的刑具。
