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词汇 torture-chamber
释义 torture chamber
collocation[ C ]
a room in which great physical or mental pain is caused to someone in order to persuade them to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to them:
The soldiers discovered what looked like a torture chamber in the factory cellar.
The medieval saga begins in a torture chamber in the dungeons of a castle.
The dictator was found to have a number of torture chambers in different locations.
It was a piece of medical equipment but it looked as if it belonged in a torture chamber.
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