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

• He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
  他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
• 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？
• 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。
• Guns, bombs, mines and tortures.
  枪支、炸弹、地雷与酷刑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She suffered tortures from rheumatism.
  她为风湿痛所苦。
• 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。
• There was an end to his tortures.
  他的磨难有尽头了。