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

• Tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears.
  被毫无理由的恐惧、噩梦折磨或困扰的。
• He was a tormented boy.
  他是个痛苦的男孩。
• But soon, fear no longer tormented my husband.
  过没多久，我先生什么都不怕了。
• 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。
• 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。
• He was constantly tormented with headache.
  他不断受到头痛的折磨。
• I tormented myself with the thought that life was just too comfortable
  一想到生活太过舒适了，我内心就很痛苦。
• These three awful nights, I've never closed my lids& and oh, I've been tormented!
  这可怕的三个夜晚，我就没阖眼&啊，我受尽了折磨！
• The knowledge of his guilt tormented him.
  对他的罪责的认识折磨了他。
• He struggled through the swamp, tormented by mosquitoes and leeches.
  他在蚊子和水蛭的骚扰下挣扎着走过了沼泽地。