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torture

['tɔ:tʃə]

n.拷問, 痛苦 
vt.拷問, 使痛苦, 曲解

例句與用法：

Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.

嚴刑拷打往往使施刑者和受刑者都喪失人性。

The use of torture must disgust any civilized person.

施用酷刑必為文明社會的人所不齒。

He tortured his prisoners.

他拷打犯人。

She suffered the tortures of toothaches.

她因牙痛而痛苦。

詞形變化：

名詞: torturer | 動詞過去式: tortured | 動詞過去分詞: tortured | 動詞現在分詞: torturing | 動詞第三人稱單數: tortures |

英文解釋:

名詞 torture:

extreme mental distress

同義詞：anguish, torment

unbearable physical pain

同義詞：torment

intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

同義詞：agony, torment

the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

同義詞：distortion, overrefinement, straining, twisting

the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

同義詞：torturing

動詞 torture:

torment emotionally or mentally

同義詞：torment, excruciate, rack

subject to torture

同義詞：excruciate, torment

以上來源於大辭典