英语释义

1. extreme pain or anguish of body or mind agony
She wrung her hands piteously together, looking like a soul in torment.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery

2. a source of vexation or pain
Love is a delight; but hate a torment.
— Herman Melville … the twin torments of his probable manic depression and chronic stomach pains.
— Neal Karlen

3. the infliction of torture (as by rack or wheel)

4. to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind to
cattle tormented by flies tormented by doubt She liked me, but she laughed at me, and tormented me …
— Charles Dickens

5. distort, twist

6. extreme physical or mental pain

7. something that causes extreme physical or mental pain

8. to cause (someone or something) to feel extreme physical or mental pain

9. to cause severe suffering of body or mind to
Flies tormented the cattle.

10. vex sense 1, harass
All last year we tormented Webb. Mostly little stuff, like messing with his locker …
— Jerry Spinelli, Crash

11. extreme pain or distress of body or mind

12. a cause of suffering in mind or body The waiting was torment.

片语

exuberant fire tormenting metal火盛刑金

Tormenting Eyes折磨眼睛

distressful苦难重重的；使苦恼的；不幸的

Tormenting Visions痛苦幻象

Tormenting Curse老实话诅咒

Indecision Tormenting Me犹豫折磨我

tormenting g使痛苦的

Or Tormenting或折磨

Who Enjoys Tormenting Chase谁喜欢折磨大通

excruciating折磨；使苦恼；使受酷刑（excruciate的ing形式）

Cooper Loved Tormenting Her库珀喜爱折磨她

英汉例句

• if she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!

  如果她愿走，她可以走；她在我跟前所引起的我的厌恶已经超过我折磨她时所得到的满足了。

• each section of the movie moves further back in time, in sympathy with leonard, until all the mysteries tormenting him are revealed.

  电影的每小段都是已经发生过的事件回放，和主角一样，直到影片结束那些困扰并折磨他的谜团才被一一解开。

• the tormenting tough issue made the drug trafficker with tragic trait of character toss and turn.

  这个令人痛苦的棘手问题使那个有悲剧性性格特点的毒贩辗转反侧。

• saul「s attendants said to him, "see, an evil spirit from god is tormenting you.

  扫罗的臣仆对他说：「现在有恶魔从神那里来扰乱你。

• other amusing methods of tormenting patty were to hide the family dog, elmo, and pretend that elmo had been euthanized while patty was at late basketball practice.

  还有一个折磨帕蒂的法子：他们把家里的宠物狗埃尔默藏起来，告诉帕蒂她去练习篮球的时候，埃尔默已经被安乐死了。

• i hear that the health care cost problem tormenting us is presently just beneath the political radar screen, for obvious reasons.

  由于显而易见的原因，我听说，让我们痛苦不堪的卫生保健支出问题目前不在政府的关注范围之内。

• you know she has a disease that is tormenting her for nine years.

  你知道她有一种病，这种病折磨她九年了。

• this chilling and suspenseful tale recounts the crimes of a cross-dressing recluse who enjoys tormenting innocent people, which may or may not have been based on the life of j. edgar hoover.

  这个惊悚悬疑的故事讲述了一个有变装癖的独居者如何享受折磨无辜的人，并犯下了种种罪行。这可能是——又或许不是——基于胡佛（j.edgarhoover，曾任fbi局长达半世纪--译者注）的真实生活改写而成的。

• an irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.

  易怒的人像一只反过来蜷缩的刺猬，用自己的刺折磨自己。

• never mind that bullfighting, although in decline in this part of spain, was once an important part of local culture, or that plenty of catalans find other ways of tormenting bulls at village fiestas.

  相对而言，斗牛（尽管在西班牙的这一地区已日渐衰落）曾一度是地方文化的重要组成部分，而且加泰罗尼亚人在乡村嘉年华里折磨牛的手段也是层出不穷的种种事实大可以忽略不计了。

• kafka」s world is in truth an indescribable universe in which man allows himself the tormenting luxury of fishing in a bathtub, knowing that nothing will come of it.

  卡夫卡的世界是一个难以表述的真实宇宙，在此之中，人可以在享受到明知无所得、却依然浴桶边垂钓的痛苦。

• and probably no one so much as dostoevsky has managed to give the absurd world such familiar and tormenting charms.

  大概没有那个作家能够达到陀思妥耶夫斯基的层次，能够赋于这个荒谬世界如此亲切而又令人痛苦的魅力。

• stop tormenting your father by asking silly questions.

  别再问一些愚蠢的问题来折磨你父亲了。

• mr north tried tormenting leicester「s students with what he describes as “computer-game music」 in the union bar.

  mrnorth试着在学校酒吧以被他称为「电脑游戏音乐」的乐曲折磨莱斯特的学生们。

• the land surveyor k. cannot imagine another anxiety than the one that is tormenting him.

  土地测量员k想象不出此外其它的任何焦虑能让他如此痛苦。

• rennes-le-chateau might hold no treasure, but this place harbored demons intent on tormenting her.

  里奈-勒-堡可能没有一点财宝，但这个地方还是栖息着足够多的魔鬼来折磨着她。

• tormenting united」s central defenders is one of his favourite pastimes.

  而折磨曼联的中后卫，是他最喜爱的消遣之一。

• she thrilled with these proofs of her power that proclaimed her a woman, and she took an eve-like delight in tormenting him and playing upon him.

  她的威力的这种种表现宣布了她已是个女人，这使她激动欢喜。她也把抗磨和玩弄他当作快乐，像夏娃一样。

• m: arrrgh! li hua, you really do get a kick out of tormenting me. i'll never get wasted for the rest of my life. i promise.

  我只是开个玩笑而已。不过，我倒是希望你这辈子再也不要喝那么多酒了！ 别看michael 昨晚喝醉了，今天还晕乎乎的。可是他教了李华两个很有用的常用语，一个是：wasted，那是指喝得大醉；另一个是：togetakickoutof something，那就是为某件事感到很高兴。

• those with this type of genealogy have no compassion and derive pleasure from tormenting others.

  那些该类型宗谱者是没有同情心的，并从折磨他人中获得乐趣。

• hanna had been behaving oddly for days, moody and peremptory, and the same time palpably under some kind of pressure that was absolutely tormenting her and left her acutely sensitive and vulnerable.

  几天来汉娜的行为一直都很古怪，喜怒无常，专横霸道，同时很明显看得出有某种压力在不折不扣地折磨着她，使她极其敏感和脆弱。

相似词

abusive辱骂的；滥用的；虐待的

troublesome麻烦的；讨厌的；使人苦恼的

afflictive难受的；苦恼的；给人痛苦的

painful痛苦的；疼痛的；令人不快的

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