tormented

英 [tɔːˈmentɪd]

美 [tɔːrˈmentɪd]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：tormented　过去式：tormented　

BNC.21641 / COCA.20721

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

• An anguished conscience; a small tormented schoolboy; a tortured witness to another's humiliation.
  倍受折磨的良心；苦恼的小男生；为他人的耻辱而苦恼的见证者。
• Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears.
  被毫无理由的恐惧、噩梦折磨或困扰的。
• Tormented by her ignorance, Jenny delves into her mother's past
  珍妮为自己的一无所知而苦恼，开始探究起母亲的过去。
• He's on the junk because he's tormented.
  他吸毒是因为他被折磨。
• His tormented monsters appeared during this decade, which gave way to the consolidation of his plastic vocabulary.
  他那折磨人的怪兽在这个阶段出现，并对于他弹性的字汇让步。
• He struggled through the swamp, tormented by mosquitoes and leeches.
  他在蚊子和水蛭的骚扰下挣扎着走过了沼泽地。
• Fear and hate warred within her and tormented her.
  恐惧和憎恨在她内心深处斗争着，折磨着她。
• Don't you know of tormented souls?
  你不知道灵魂苦恼的吗？
• True or not, Patrick Bissell's life seemed tormented from the time he was a very young man.
  真也好，假也罢，帕特里克•比斯尔的生活好像从他年轻的时候起，就一直很痛苦。
• It has all the ingredients to hold a person's tormented soul: misery, confinement and fear.
  这里有着所有能让灵魂受尽折磨的东西：痛苦，监禁和恐惧。