torture

英 ['tɔːtʃə] 美['tɔrtʃɚ]

vt. 折磨；拷问；歪曲
n. 折磨；拷问；歪曲

近义词 pain afflict distress plague torment persecute inflame harrow agonize

CET6 考研 GRE IELTS TEM4 CET4 常用词汇中频词

英英释义

1. extreme mental distress

2. unbearable physical pain

3. intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;: "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

4. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

5. the act of torturing someone;: "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

同义词辨析

agony, anguish, torment, torture, grief, misery, distress, sorrow

这些名词均有"苦恼，痛苦"之意。

agony：侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。

anguish：指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。

torment：强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。

torture：语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。

grief：指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。

misery：着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。

distress：多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。

sorrow：语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。

考试真题

The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.

实用场景例句

Many of the refugees have suffered torture.: 许多难民都遭受过拷打。

the use of torture: 施酷刑

terrible instruments of torture: 可怕的刑讯工具

His confessions were made under torture .: 他被屈打成招。

I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.: 我听说过监狱里令人毛骨悚然的刑讯。

The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.: 这次面试从头至尾使人备受煎熬。

Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.: 反叛者中许多人被捕并遭受到秘密警察的酷刑。

He was tortured into giving them the information.: 他受不住酷刑被迫向他们供出了情报。

He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.: 童年的记忆使他痛苦了一辈子。

French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...: 法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。

Three members of the group had been tortured to death…: 该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。

He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...: 他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。

She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.: 她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。

Waiting for the result was torture...: 等待结果的过程是一种折磨。

The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…: 被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。

Stories of torture and secret killings abound.: 酷刑和秘密杀害的故事路人皆知.

Losing everything, bit by bit, torture.: 一点一点地、折磨人地失去每一样东西.

And the souls will feel torture and torment and love and compassion.: 而灵魂将会感觉痛苦和折磨,爱,慈悲.

Possibly I torture myself in vain?: 说不定我是在白白地折磨自己吧 ?

Bush – should be prosecuted for violating domestic and international laws on torture.: 本人——违反了国内和国际的酷刑法?

Through those long years of imprisonment and torture, he remained faithful and unyielding.: 在那些遭受囚禁和酷刑的漫长岁月里, 他始终坚贞不屈.

I've been the sport of that intolerable torture!: 我总是被那种不可容忍的折磨所捉弄!

Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her.: 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑.

The criminal is undergoing torture.: 犯人在受严刑拷打.

The interrogators put the prisoner to torture.: 审问者使囚犯们受到折磨.

No torture would make him speak.: 任何严刑拷打都不能使他开口.

中文词源

torture 拷问，拷打，折磨，痛苦

来自拉丁语 tortus,扭曲的，扭成一团的，词源同 turn,torment.-ure,名词后缀。引词义拷问，折磨。

助记提示

记忆方法:偷窃被拷打

双语例句

1. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture.: 被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。

2. 2,000 prisoners died as a result of torture and maltreatment.: 2,000名犯人死于拷打和虐待。

3. There are consistent reports of electrical torture being practised on inmates.: 一直有报道称犯人被施以电刑。

4. I believed that in civilized countries, torture had ended long ago.: 我原以为在文明国家，严刑拷打早已销声匿迹。

5. The confessions were obtained by what amounts to torture.: 这些供状是用近乎逼供的方式得来的。

英文词源

torture: torture: see torment
torture (n.): early 15c., "contortion, twisting, distortion; a disorder characterized by contortion," from Old French torture "infliction of great pain; great pain, agony" (12c.), and directly from Late Latin tortura "a twisting, writhing," in Medieval Latin "pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of punishment or persuasion," from stem of Latin torquere "to twist, turn, wind, wring, distort" (see torque (n.)). The meaning "infliction of severe bodily pain as a means of punishment or persuasion" in English is from 1550s. The theory behind judicial torture was that a guilty person could be made to confess, but an innocent one could not, by this means. Macaulay writes that it was last inflicted in England in May 1640.
torture (v.): 1580s, from torture (n.). Related: Tortured; torturing.

词态变化

复数: tortures;第三人称单数: tortures;过去式: tortured;过去分词: tortured;现在分词: torturing;