torment
torment 英 [ˈtɔ:ment] 美 [ˈtɔrment]
vt. 折磨，使痛苦；纠缠，作弄 n. 痛苦，苦恼；痛苦的根源
进行时:tormenting 过去式:tormented 过去分词:tormented 第三人称单数:torments 名词复数:torments
- By repeatedly trying to make someone miserable you torment them. The noun torment is the result of the verb torment.
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- vt. 折磨，使痛苦；纠缠，作弄
- n. 痛苦，苦恼；痛苦的根源
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1. Besides, is it just to torment one man for the crime of another?
再说，因为一个人的罪过而折磨另一个人，这正当么？
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2. For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
因为我还有五个弟兄。 他可以对他们作见证，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。
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3. However, the night turns into a nightmare when three mysterious strangers attack them and torment them throughout the night.
但是，当他们惨遭三个神秘的陌生人的袭击和折磨后，这一夜便成了噩梦。
- torment (n.) c. 1300, "the inflicting of torture," also "state of great suffering, pain, distress," from Old French torment "torture, pain, anguish, suffering distress" (11c., Modern French tourment), from Latin tormentum "twisted cord, sling; clothes-press; instrument for hurling stones," also "instrument of torture, a rack," figuratively "anguish, pain, torment," from torquere "to twist" (from PIE root *terkw- "to twist").
- torment (v.) c. 1300, "inflict torture on, distress," from Old French tormenter "torture, torment, oppress, agitate" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tormentare "to torment, to twist," from Latin tormentum "twisted cord, sling; clothes-press; instrument for hurling stones," also "instrument of torture, a rack," figuratively "anguish, pain, torment," from torquere "to twist" (from PIE root *terkw- "to twist"). Related: Tormented; tormenting.
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