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；拷问；折磨；虐待

  • Half of the prisoners died after torture and starvation. 半数的囚犯死于拷打和饥饿。

  • He revealed the secret under torture. 在严刑拷打之下他吐露了秘密。

  • The rush-hour traffic was sheer torture as usual. 交通高峰期像往常一样简直就是一种煎熬。

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

  • It is claimed that the officers tortured a man to death in a city police station. 据称在一所市警察局里警察将一名男子拷打致死。

  • He tortured himself for years with the thought that he could have stopped the boy from running into the road. 他本可以阻止那个男孩跑到马路上去的想法多年来一直折磨着他。