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

• 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。
• I can no longer bring myself to embrace its torments and its aspirations.
  我不再能让我自己去拥抱它的折磨与它的热望。
• These days, more than ever, facing and embracing your worst-case scenarios, seeing them as problems to be solved rather than torments to suffer helplessly, can save you no end of self-sabotage.
  如今，以往任何似乎后，面临和拥抱你最糟糕的情况，将它们看成是待解决的问题，而不是无助地去承受的折磨，这能让你终止无止境的自我破坏。
• 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。
• Actions you will purge with hell's worst torments.
  你将在地狱遭受酷刑折磨。
• But it torments me less as a mother to see you die in agony in the arms of god.
  但作为母亲我希望你死在上帝的怀里。
• The cover couldn't be more explicative! Is this the door to life and joy or isn't it more true that it's the door to hell and its torments?
  这张唱片的封面不能再极端了！这是通向生活和享受的大门吗？或者它不也是更真实的通往地狱和苦痛的大门？
• Eg. she torments everyone with silly questions.
  她用无聊的问题来烦扰大家。
• 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。
• Dr Chilton does enjoy his petty torments.
  切尔顿医生真享受他得意的折磨。