torture的意思和读音

torture

: [ˈtɔrtʃər] : [ˈtɔː(r)tʃə(r)]

n.

v.使

tortures  torturing  tortured  

v.+n.use torture

v.torment,afflict,persecute,brutalize,punish

n.anguish,agony,pain,suffering,distress

torturen.

1.the act of causing sb severe pain in order to punish them or make them say or do sth

Many of the refugees have suffered torture.

the use of torture

terrible instruments of torture

His confessions were made under torture .

I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.

2.(informal)mental or physical suffering; sth that causes this

The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.使

v.

1.to hurt sb physically or mentally in order to punish them or make them tell you sth

Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.

He was tortured into giving them the information.

2.~ sb使使使使to make sb feel extremely unhappy or anxious

He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.使

n.1.;,2.,

v.1.,;;使;() (out of; into);,

n.1.extreme physical pain caused by someone or something, especially as a punishment or as a way to make someone say something2.a mentally or physically uncomfortable feeling

v.1.to hurt a person or animal deliberately in a very cruel way, especially as a punishment or in order to make them say something2.to make someone feel extremely worried or upset about something

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1.opposed to any application of the death penalty and torture of prisoners, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

2.If you're the kind of person who thrives when interacting with other people, sitting alone in a cubicle all day can be absolute torture.。cubicle

3.In the night terrible dreams had broken his sleep, and made it a long torture.使

4.At least that's the talk this week as the judges up the torture quotient, taking train-wreck TV viewing to a whole new level.

5.What's a musician to do when he finds out that his music may have been used to torture people?

6.And yet, torture is still practised or tolerated by many States. Impunity persists for the perpetrators. The victims continue to suffer.

7.Torture was formerly used to make people give evidence about crimes, or to make them confess.

8.It is not to torture or kill its own ethnic nationals and was not formed to be used for an individual group or any dictator.(,)

9.He had abandoned wish of saving him, and was no longer disposed to retard the more serious part of the torture.

10.She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.