tormented

英 [tɔːˈmentɪd]

美 [tɔːrˈmentɪd]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：tormented　过去式：tormented　

BNC.21641 / COCA.20721

柯林斯词典

The noun is pronounced /'tɔːment/. The verb is pronounced /tɔː'ment/. 名词读作/'tɔːment/。动词读作 /tɔː'ment/。


• N-UNCOUNT 极度痛苦；苦恼万分；折磨
  Tormentis extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
     因孩子被绑架所受的万分折磨全写在她脸上。
  2. He spent days in torment while the police searched for his stolen car.
     在警方搜寻他遭窃汽车的同时，他在极度苦恼中过了好些天。
• N-COUNT 使人痛苦的事;折磨人的事
  Atormentis something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
  1. Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer...
     或早或晚，大多数作家最终都会著书讲述身为作家的苦恼。
  2. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
     在户外，蚊子和蠓虫永远让人不得安生。
• VERB 折磨;使痛苦万分
  If somethingtormentsyou, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
  1. At times the memories returned to torment her...
     有时，她再度想起往事，又会痛苦万分。
  2. He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy.
     他彻夜未眠，深受嫉妒的折磨。
• VERB 戏弄;作弄
  If youtormenta person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.
  1. My older brother and sister used to torment me by singing it to me.
     哥哥姐姐以前常唱那首歌来戏弄我。

双语例句

• She was tormented by her memories.
  她被回忆折磨着。
• Tormented by her ignorance, Jenny delves into her mother's past
  珍妮为自己的一无所知而苦恼，开始探究起母亲的过去。
• It has all the ingredients to hold a person's tormented soul: misery, confinement and fear.
  这里有着所有能让灵魂受尽折磨的东西：痛苦，监禁和恐惧。
• So between being tormented each and every day and a chance of survival, I would choose life.
  在每天饱受折磨和生存的机会之间，我选择生活。
• And they seemed to cry of a tormented soul facing something he could not face, yet must face.
  它们好像是一个痛苦的灵魂面对着某种他所不能面对而又必须面对的东西在发出呼叫。
• He was tormented with the stings of conscience.
  他感到良心苛责的痛苦。
• Don't you know of tormented souls?
  你不知道灵魂苦恼的吗？
• The thought that what I wrote might not be absolutely my own tormented me.
  我写的东西也许并不完全属于我自己&这样的想法深深地折磨着我。
• The knowledge of his guilt tormented him.
  对他的罪责的认识折磨了他。
• But soon, fear no longer tormented my husband.
  过没多久，我先生什么都不怕了。