torture

美音：['tɔrtʃər] 英音：['tɔː(r)tʃə(r)]

简单释义：

n.酷刑；拷打；拷问；痛苦

v.拷打；拷问；严刑逼供；使痛苦

网络折磨；虐待；刑讯

变形：

过去分词：tortured 现在分词：torturing 第三人称单数：tortures

完整释义：

1.酷刑,严刑拷打
2.折磨;痛苦,苦恼
3.拷问,拷打
4.拷问;严刑
5.濒死苦闷
6.压迫
7.剧痛

1.拷问,拷打;折磨;使痛苦;曲解(法律条文等); 扭弯,扭折
2.折磨;拼命地熬住
3.严刑拷打
4.啮蚀
5.歪曲

例句：

There have been a few honourable exceptions in the upper chamber, notably John McCain's interventions on the use of torture.
（但是也）存在几个在上议院值得尊敬的反对意见，特别是约翰麦凯恩在通过利用拷问上的干涉。
make it a protection for me from the Hell-Fire, from punishment and from torture in the Hereafter.
让它成为我免于后世火狱，惩罚和折磨的盾牌吧。
And then out of the superiority , such a human gives themselves permission to use, prostitute, abuse, starve, torture or war upon another.
而在优越感中，这个人类给自己权力去利用、出卖、虐待、使之挨饿、拷打别人或与别人战争。
And yet, torture is still practised or tolerated by many States. Impunity persists for the perpetrators. The victims continue to suffer.
然而，在许多国家，酷刑依然存在或得到容忍。施加酷刑者依然不受惩罚。受害者继续忍受痛苦。
He said he believes the controversial interrogation technique known as water boarding is torture and should not be permitted.
他说，他认为具有争议的审讯手段“模拟溺水”是折磨，因此不应允许使用。
He talked rather shyly, hesitatingly, as though it were torture to him to speak and yet he was forced to by some inner passion.
他讲话腼腼腆腆、犹犹豫豫，好象发言对他是一种折磨，而某种内在的激情又迫使他非讲不可。
To have secured my acquittal by such means would have been a life-long torture to me.
假使通过这种手段使自己获判无罪，对于我将是永生的折磨。
He said he had been reduced to a "human wreck" by torture he had undergone in a Cairo jail.
四年后他被无罪释放。他说他在开罗的一家监狱里被酷刑折磨成了一具行尸走肉。

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