| 词汇 | torment |
| 释义 | torment noun uk /ˈtɔː.ment/ us /ˈtɔːr.ment/ [ U ] great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain: 折磨;痛苦 endure tormentThe family said they had endured years of torment and abuse at the hands of their neighbours.这家人说多年来他们一直忍受着邻居们的欺凌羞辱。 Waiting for the result of the medical tests was sheer torment.等待医疗检查的结果简直就是一种折磨。 in tormentHe spent the night in torment, trying to decide what was the best thing to do.他在痛苦中度过了那个晚上，思量着最好该怎么做。 torments[ plural ] great mental suffering and unhappiness: 精神上的折磨与痛苦 go through tormentsNothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news.我们在等待消息时所受的精神折磨是无法用语言描述的。 [ C ] something or someone that causes great suffering or anger: 痛苦（或烦恼）之源 torment toWriting reports was a monthly torment to him.写报告每个月都让他头疼。 Pain & painful -racked aches and pains achy agonizing analgesia be murder on somethingidiom birth pangs brain freeze grief neuralgia pain reliever painlessly pang prick rawness shooting pains sore sting stitch throb You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Difficult things and people torment verb[ T ] uk /tɔːˈment/ us /tɔːrˈment/ to cause a person or animal to suffer or worry: 折磨;使痛苦 The animals are tormented mercilessly by flies and mosquitoes.动物受到苍蝇和蚊子的无情折磨。 be tormented by/withThe camera focused on a group of women whose faces were tormented by/with (= showed that they were suffering) grief.照相机对准了一群满脸忧伤的女人。 It tormented me all day - had I said the wrong thing and hurt her feelings?这件事折磨了我一整天——我是不是说错了话伤了她的感情？ 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 tyranny uncared for use victimization victimize Related wordtormentor torment | American Dictionarytorment noun[ C/U ] us/ˈtɔr·ment/ great mental or physical suffering, or something that causes such pain: [ U ]After three days of torment, she went to a dentist. [ C ]That child acts like it’s a torment to see me. tormentverb[ T ]us/tɔrˈment, ˈtɔr·ment/ The cows were tormented by flies. Examples of tormenttorment On the other, torments surface about restricted occupational prospects and tedium. This is an astonishing claim : pattern recognition of exactly this kind has tormented statisticians and computer scientists to no end. This is my most painful torment, this is the worst of my misfortunes: to think of the past. Western powers too played a less than glorious part in this twentieth-century drama, where imperial and ethnic nation-state projects have alternately tormented the region's society. Precisely upon this torment the man directs his whole passion, which at last becomes a demoniac rage. Some surrogates are tormented by the thought that they are "allowing" their loved one to die. Torment is sanitized by its inclusion in a religious and spiritual framework. We may not undergo his torments, but we can speak his words. To justify infinite torment, there must be infinite harm inflicted. Equus torments him, but it is also the sole element of transcendence in his otherwise meaningless existence. To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction. My limbs were tormented by the fire in my belly. The emperor - seeks forgiveness for rebelling and imprisoning his father and so, by extension, to avoid the torment of hellfire. The torment is not represented in dramatized form, through sensory details of the anguished body, nor reported directly by an eyewitness. Well, one way to deal with such torment is to deaden or suppress the very good that is causing this torment. See all examples of torment These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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