Torment
['tɔːment] or ['tɔrmɛnt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) torment emotionally or mentally.
(verb.) treat cruelly; 'The children tormented the stuttering teacher'.
校對:露辛达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An engine for casting stones.
(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.
(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
(v. t.) To put into great agitation.
辛迪校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Anguish, agony, torture, rack, pang, extreme pain, excruciating pain, acute distress.
v. a. [1]. Torture, distress, agonize, rack, excruciate, pain extremely, put to the rack, put to torture.[2]. Tease, vex, plague, harass, worry, harry, badger, fret, irritate, nettle, provoke, tantalize, trouble, annoy.
手打:梅格
解釋/意思:
n. torture: anguish: that which causes pain.—v.t. Torment′ to torture: to put to extreme pain physical or mental: to distress: to afflict.—p.adj. Tormen′ted (U.S.) a euphemism for damned.—adj. Tormen′ting causing torment.—adv. Tormen′tingly in a tormenting manner.—ns. Tormen′tor -er one who or that which torments: (B.) a torturer an executioner: a long meat-fork: a wing in the first groove of a stage; Tormen′tum a whirligig.
杰弗里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I think I've hearn tell o' the Lord, and the judgment and torment. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The flag drops and covers the eyes of the animal so that he is at a loss what to do; it is jerked from him and the torment is renewed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nay, Madam, said Adrian, unless my sister consent never to see him again, it is surely an useless torment to separate them for a month. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was a torment to her when anybody spoke to her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He would have thought, even if there were no such design as that, had he brought him there to play with his repressed emotions, and torment him? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He seemed to believe in education through subjection and torment. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This idea pursued me, and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I could swear to this hand anywhere; but how you have tormented me to-night, said Meyler. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Why, had I been Nero himself, I could not have tormented a being inoffensive as a shadow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She felt tormented and dark. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The art of being cruel, kind, merry, sad, delightful, yet tormenting. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- His lordship's extreme gentleness of disposition appeared very attractive when set in contrast with Meyler's tormenting, dogged humour. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I have had her before me all this time, finding no pleasure in anything but keeping me as miserable, suspicious, and tormenting as herself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I catch him coming on post, again pass him as unaware of his existence, and again he undergoes grinding torments. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I have been in torments ever since I stopped short of it before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What torments they are, yet we can't do without them, he said, pinching her cheeks good-humoredly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She suffered torments hearing his firm tread going so distinctly down the road. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Those among you who were prisoners in England can tell their comrades what frightful torments they suffered on board the English hulks. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I understand he is going to the Duke of Devonshire's dress party, and the idea torments me wretchedly. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Then we face one another, and I pass him as unaware of his existence, and he undergoes grinding torments. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
手打:玛里琳