torture
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈtɔː.tʃər]
- 美式音标 [ˈtɔːr.tʃɚ]
- 国际音标 ['tɔ:tʃə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.拷问;痛苦
- vt.拷问;使痛苦;曲解
词源解说
- 15世纪初期进入英语,直接源自古法语的torture,意为剧痛;最初源自晚期拉丁语的tortura,意为扭弯。
词根记忆
- tort(卷缠) + ure→用绳子卷缠起来拷打→拷问
- tort(卷缠) + ure(表行为、状态)→把绳索缠在身上,严刑拷打→拷问
用法辨析
- torture的基本意思是严重折磨某人的身体和精神,使其产生极度痛苦、苦恼和紧张等不良感觉。
- torture是及物动词,接名词、代词作宾语。其宾语后也可接动词不定式作目的状语。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- The torture made him confess.
严刑拷打使他招供了。 - They tortured the prisoner until he made a confession.
他们对犯人施以酷刑,直到他招供。
用作名词 (n.)
用作动词 (v.)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
词组短语
- employ 〔use〕 torture 使用酷刑
- suffer the torture 受折磨
- severe torture 严刑拷打
- 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
用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
形容词+~
介词+~
~+介词
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.
剑桥英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 刑讯逼供
Chapter one elaborates some basic questions for Confession by Torture.
第一章主要阐明了刑讯逼供的相关基础性问题。心理学
- 折磨