torture是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to a person or animal -- 拷打；拷問；折磨；虐待

  • Half of the prisoners died after torture and starvation. 半數的囚犯死於拷打和饑餓。

  • He revealed the secret under torture. 在嚴刑拷打之下，他吐露了秘密。

  • The rush-hour traffic was sheer torture as usual. 交通尖峰期像往常一樣令人煎熬。

• 1 to cause great physical or mental pain to someone intentionally -- 拷打；拷問；折磨；虐待

  • It is claimed that the officers tortured a man to death in a city police station. 據稱在一所市警察局裡，員警將一名男子拷打致死。

  • He tortured himself for years with the thought that he could have stopped the boy from running into the road. 他本可以阻止那個男孩跑到馬路上去的想法多年來一直折磨著他。