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IELTS BNC: 7091 COCA: 5272
torture
tɔːʳtʃəʳ ˈtɔrtʃər
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense tortures, present participle torturing, past tense , past participle tortured
1 VERB

拷打;拷問;虐待 If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information. 拷打;拷問;虐待

  • French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed. [be VERB-ed]

    法國警方確信她是被拷打致死。

  • Three members of the group had been tortured to death… [be VERB-ed]

    該團體中有三個人被拷打致死。

  • They never again tortured a prisoner in his presence. [VERB noun]

    他們再也沒有當他的面嚴刑拷打過囚犯。

SYN torment, abuse, persecute, afflict
Torture is also a noun.

  • ...alleged cases of torture and murder by the security forces.

    指控安全部隊嚴刑拷問和謀殺的案例

  • Many died under torture, others committed suicide…

    很多人被酷刑折磨致死，另一些人則選擇了自殺。

  • I had thought this was a medieval torture that had mercifully disappeared.

    我還以爲這是中世紀的酷刑，早已令人慶幸地不複存在了。

2 VERB

折磨;使痛苦;使苦惱 To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety. 折磨;使痛苦;使苦惱

  • He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her. [VERB noun]

    他不願與她爭辯，讓她更痛苦。

  • She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + with]

    她想象着鮑勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心裏備受煎熬。

SYN distress, torment, worry, trouble
3 N-UNCOUNT [oft a NOUN]

折磨;痛苦;苦惱;引起痛苦(或苦惱)的事物 If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering. 折磨;痛苦;苦惱;引起痛苦(或苦惱)的事物 [informal]

  • Waiting for the result was torture.

    等待結果的過程是一種折磨。

  • The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…

    被單摩擦着他的皮膚，簡直像是酷刑。

  • Learning — something she had always loved — became a torture.

    學習—她一直喜歡的事情—變成了一種痛苦。

SYN agony, suffering, misery, anguish
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