torture

torture汉语翻译：
n. 拷问, 苦闷
vt. 拷问, 曲解, 折磨, 使弯曲
【法】 拷问, 拷打, 刑讯
相关词组:
be in torture词型变化：
名词:torturer动词过去式:tortured过去分词:tortured现在分词:torturing第三人称单数:tortures词意辨析：
agony, anguish, torment, torture, grief, misery, distress, sorrow这些名词均有“苦恼、痛苦”之意。
agony: 侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。
anguish: 指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。
torment: 强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。
torture: 语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。
grief: 指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。
misery: 着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。
distress: 多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。
sorrow: 语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。英语解释：
名词 torture:

extreme mental distress同义词：anguish, torment

unbearable physical pain同义词：torment

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain同义词：agony, torment

the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean同义词：distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason同义词：torturing

动词 torture:

torment emotionally or mentally同义词：torment, excruciate, rack

subject to torture同义词：excruciate, torment

例句：

Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.严刑拷打往往使施刑者和受刑者都丧失人性。

The use of torture must disgust any civilized person.施用酷刑必为文明社会的人所不齿。

He tortured his prisoners.他拷打犯人。

She suffered the tortures of toothaches.她因牙痛而痛苦。