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

• 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。
• He suffered torments from an aching tooth.
  他忍受着牙痛的折磨。
• 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？
• Torments have been terminated by me.
  煎熬，被我终结了。
• F.God will require unbelievers to have "horrified" bodies that are hideous, disgusting and suffer all the terrible pains and torments of sin forever.
  上帝给非信徒一个“恐怖”的身体，他们是丑陋的、令人讨厌的，要永远经历可怕的疼痛和难以忍受的罪的折磨。
• 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。
• Down with that great all, which torments me!
  打倒那个惹人厌烦的万物之主！
• 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。
• We pray for strength and humility, and some messenger of Satan torments us until we lie in the dust crying for its removal.
  我们求能力和谦卑，神却给我们撒但的苦害。直到我们躺在尘土里求告他。
• 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。