torments

英 [tɔːˈments]

美 [tɔːrˈments]

n.  (尤指精神上的)折磨，痛苦; 苦难之源
v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

The noun is pronounced /'tɔːment/. The verb is pronounced /tɔː'ment/. 名词读作/'tɔːment/。动词读作 /tɔː'ment/。


• N-UNCOUNT 极度痛苦；苦恼万分；折磨
  Tormentis extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
     因孩子被绑架所受的万分折磨全写在她脸上。
  2. He spent days in torment while the police searched for his stolen car.
     在警方搜寻他遭窃汽车的同时，他在极度苦恼中过了好些天。
• N-COUNT 使人痛苦的事;折磨人的事
  Atormentis something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer...
     或早或晚，大多数作家最终都会著书讲述身为作家的苦恼。
  2. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
     在户外，蚊子和蠓虫永远让人不得安生。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦万分
  If somethingtormentsyou, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
  1. At times the memories returned to torment her...
     有时，她再度想起往事，又会痛苦万分。
  2. He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy.
     他彻夜未眠，深受嫉妒的折磨。
• VERB 戏弄;作弄
  If youtormenta person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.
  1. My older brother and sister used to torment me by singing it to me.
     哥哥姐姐以前常唱那首歌来戏弄我。

双语例句

• Torments have been terminated by me.
  煎熬，被我终结了。
• But do not think that our race has been abandoned by God. 17Wait, and you shall see his great power when he torments you and your descendants.
  不过不要以为天主已经离弃了我们的民族。17你等着看吧！看他的大能是如何惩罚你和你的子孙的。
• My hard heart has doomed me to suffer the torments of Hell.
  我的残忍的心注定我要受到地狱的折磨。
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• And where the mind is never free from the torments of remorse.
  你的心灵永远无法从悔恨的折磨中解脱。
• A.In His Word, God speaks very clearly and powerfully about eternal torments that He will administer to ungodly people as punishment for their sin and unbelief in a place called hell.
  在圣经中，神明确而有力的说到，对那些不敬畏神的人的罪与不信将在名叫地狱的地方有永远的痛苦作为惩罚。
• Down with that great all, which torments me!
  打倒那个惹人厌烦的万物之主！
• Unable to endure such torments, she came to an untimely end.
  她经不住这样的熬煎，过早地离开了人世。
• The prisoners would soon suffer worse worse torments.
  囚犯们很快就要遭受更为残酷的折磨。
• That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
  因为我有五个兄弟，叫他警告他们，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。