torment
英式音标：torment怎么读
美式音标：torment怎么读
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近义词： trouble,inflame,harass,torture,irritate,badger,tease,agonize,pester,harrow,heckle,plague,molest,distress,bother,harry,persecute,worry
torment词义
折叠展开
vt. 折磨，使痛苦；纠缠，作弄n. 痛苦，苦恼；痛苦的根源
词态变化
复数: torments;第三人称单数: torments;过去式: tormented;过去分词: tormented;现在分词: tormenting;
中文词源
torment 折磨，痛苦
来自拉丁语 torquere,扭曲，词源同 turn,torque.-ment,名词后缀。引申词义折磨，痛苦。
torment双语例句
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- 1. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
- 在户外，蚊子和蠓虫永远让人不得安生。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. the cries of a man in torment
- 一个备受折磨的人的喊叫声
来自《权威词典》
- 3. Love is a sweet tyranny , because the lover endures his torment willingly.
- 爱情是甜蜜的暴政, 情人甘心忍受它的折磨.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. It was wicked of you to torment the poor girl.
- 你折磨那可怜的女孩,真是恶劣.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. He has never suffered the torment of rejection.
- 他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦.
来自《简明英汉词典》
torment英文词源
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- torment
- torment: [13] The notion underlying torment is of an instrument of torture worked by ‘twisting’. The word was borrowed from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, hence ‘torture, great suffering’. This was a contraction of an earlier *torquementum, a derivative of torquēre ‘twist’, which has also given English contort [15], extort [16], retort [16], torch, torque [19], torsion [15], tort [14], tortuous [15], and torture [16] (literally ‘twisting’).
=> contort, extort, retort, thwart, torch, torque, torsion, tort, torture - 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" (see torque (n.)).
- 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 (see torment (n.)). Related: Tormented; tormenting.
torment实用场景例句
折叠展开
- the cries of a man in torment
- 一个备受折磨的人的喊叫声
牛津词典
- She suffered years of mental torment after her son's death.
- 儿子去世后，她多年悲痛欲绝。
牛津词典
- The flies were a terrible torment.
- 苍蝇一度肆虐。
牛津词典
- He was tormented by feelings of insecurity.
- 他苦于没有安全感。
牛津词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
- 在户外，蚊子和蠓虫永远让人不得安生。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- At times the memories returned to torment her...
- 有时，她再度想起往事，又会痛苦万分。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy.
- 他彻夜未眠，深受嫉妒的折磨。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Jealousy began to torment him.
- 猜忌的心理开始来折磨他了.
辞典例句
- 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.
期刊摘选
- He was in torment after the operation.
- 手术后他非常痛苦.
期刊摘选
- He has never suffered the torment of rejection.
- 他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦.
《简明英汉词典》
- Absolve the torment that you suffer.
- 免除你所受的折磨.
期刊摘选
- My wife is a real torment to me.
- 我的老婆真令我苦恼.
辞典例句
- His schooldays were a torment.
- 他的学生时期是一场苦难.
《简明英汉词典》
- He was determined to torment her in any way he could.
- 他决定折磨她,无所不用其极.
期刊摘选
- This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
- 这是我手所定的.们必躺在悲惨之中.
期刊摘选
- How can a merciful God permit a human being to suffer such torment?
- 仁慈的上帝怎么容许一个人受这样的痛苦?
辞典例句
- He suffered a hideous torment when the enemy caught him.
- 敌人抓到他后,他受到可怕的折磨.
期刊摘选
- God does not directly torment or impose evil on us.
- 上帝不会直接折磨或把罪恶强加在我们身上.
期刊摘选
- Trying to control or to change what we can't only results in torment.
- 尝试去控制或去改变我们不能控制的事物只会带来自讨苦吃的结果.
期刊摘选
- It is possible to live in heaven while those around you live in torment.
- 是有可能当你们生活在天堂,而同时周围的人却生活在煎熬中.
期刊摘选
- This is a pleasurable torment. My ignorance amuses me.
- 这真是一个享受的酷刑. 我的无知令我很好笑.
期刊摘选
- It now becomes an unbearable torment.
- 它现在又变作一种不能忍受的折磨.
辞典例句