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

• All the sinners break wholly away the torments together, who have all developed the Supreme Bodhi-Citta.
  一切罪人。俱得离苦。皆发无上菩提心。
• Eg. she torments everyone with silly questions.
  她用无聊的问题来烦扰大家。
• But for my aid, his life would have burned away in torments, within the first two years after the perpetration of his crime and thine.
  要不是我假以援手，他和你犯下罪孽之后的头两年里，他的生命便会在备受折磨之中烧光了。
• But since she only torments me with international politics, I can only remark: What a tiresome off-the-spot old woman!
  可是既然她只会拿国际政治来折磨我，我只能说：真是个离题太远的讨厌的老太婆！
• Dr Chilton does enjoy his petty torments.
  切尔顿医生真享受他得意的折磨。
• Bob often torments his teachers with silly questions.
  鲍伯常以无聊的问题来困扰老。
• Nothing can describe the torments we went through while we were waiting for news.
  我们在等待消息时精神上所受到的痛苦是无法描绘的。
• He suffered torments from an aching tooth.
  他忍受着牙痛的折磨。
• The Rockets blew a17-point third-quarter lead, but that was not the lost lead that torments them now.
  对决小牛，第三节火箭领先17分，但最后还是输了，可这还不是最让他们闹心的地方。
• 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。