torture
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [?t??.t??r]
- 美式音標 [?t??r.t??]
- 國際音標 ['t?:t??]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.拷問；痛苦
- vt.拷問；使痛苦；曲解
詞源解說
- 15世紀初期進入英語，直接源自古法語的torture，意爲劇痛；最初源自晚期拉丁語的tortura，意爲扭彎。
詞根記憶
- tort(卷纏) + ure→用繩子卷纏起來拷打→拷問
- tort(卷纏) + ure(表行爲、狀態(tài))→把繩索纏在身上，嚴刑拷打→拷問
用法辨析
- torture的基本意思是嚴重折磨某人的身躰和精神,使其産生極度痛苦、苦惱和緊張等不良感覺。
- torture是及物動詞,接名詞、代詞作賓語。其賓語後也可接動詞不定式作目的狀語。
v. (動詞)
英漢例句
- The torture made him confess.
嚴刑拷打使他招供了。 - They tortured the prisoner until he made a confession.
他們對犯人施以酷刑,直到他招供。
用作名詞 (n.)
用作動詞 (v.)
用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.
詞組短語
- employ 〔use〕 torture 使用酷刑
- suffer the torture 受折磨
- severe torture 嚴刑拷打
- terrible torture 可怕的折磨
- be in torture 在痛苦中
- instruments of torture 刑具
- die under torture 折磨而死
- torture by fire 火刑
用作名詞 (n.)
動詞+～
形容詞+～
介詞+～
～+介詞
英英字典
- 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
- to cause great physical or mental pain to someone intentionally
- If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them terrible pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
- Torture is also a noun.
- To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
專業(yè)釋義
- 刑訊逼供
Chapter one elaborates some basic questions for Confession by Torture.
第一章主要闡明了刑訊逼供的相關基礎性問題。心理學
- 折磨