名词折磨; 拷问; 痛苦; （精神上或肉体上的）折磨
及物动词使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 曲解
torture
及物动词
1. He was tortured with anxiety.
他为焦虑所苦。
2. The police tortured him to confess his crime.
警察拷打他，逼他招供。
3. Winds tortured the trees.
风把树吹得歪歪斜斜。
名词
1. The sight of his sick brother was torture to him.
看到他生病的哥哥那副样子令他非常痛苦。
2. She suffered tortures from a toothache.
她受牙痛的折磨。
3. Many of the POWs died under torture.
许多战俘被折磨致死。