词汇 | self-torture |
释义 | self-torture noun[ U ] (alsoselftorture)uk /ˌselfˈtɔː.tʃər/ us /ˌselfˈtɔːr.tʃɚ/ the act of causing great mental, emotional or physical pain to yourself: Survivors of the fire talk about it over and over again, to the point where it almost seems a kind of self-torture. Aspects of his training involve such extremes of self-torture that most readers will find them questionable. The book asks which is best: ignorant happiness or awareness that leads to self-torture? The physical pain of his illness and fever were intensified by mental self-torture. Strangely enough, he seems to enjoy the self-torture of long sessions on the rowing machine. Treating people or animals badly a raw dealidiom abuser anti-harassment at the hands of someoneidiom batten batten on someone hit someone where it hurtsidiom ill-treat ill-treatment ill-used impose prey prey on something put someone through something put upon uncared for use victimization victimize victimology |
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