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tormenting

英 [tɔːˈmentɪŋ]

美 [tɔːrˈmentɪŋ]

v.  使备受折磨; 使痛苦; 烦扰; 戏弄; 捉弄; 纠缠
torment的现在分词

现在分词:tormenting 

BNC.48705 / COCA.39863

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

  • The guards were accused of tormenting the prisoners.
    监狱看守被指控折磨囚犯。
  • The professor found as soon as we hear words like "tormenting"," gruelling "or" plaguing", the exact areas in the brain that deal with pain are activated.
    教授还发现,只要我们听到类似痛苦的、折磨人的、苦恼的的词汇,大脑中的这个相关区域就立刻被激活。
  • You are Chinese quantifiers tortures, as we were also English tenses tormenting!
    你被中文的量词折磨着,同样我们也被英文的时态折磨着!
  • A piercing mournful wail cut through the air, as if intent on tormenting the weak of heart.
    一阵尖锐的、凄惨的叫声在空中盘旋了一阵,好像故意在绞痛这些人的脆弱的心。
  • Stop tormenting that poor dog!
    别再戏弄那只可怜的狗了!
  • I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
    先生,我向你保证,这决没有冒充风雅,故意作弄一位有面子的绅士。
  • So this is why you've been tormenting me since last night.
    难怪你从昨晚开始就折磨我。
  • An irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up te wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles& Thomas Hood, British humorist and poet.
    易怒之人就像一个反着卷曲过来的刺猬,用自己的刺折磨自己&托马斯。胡德,英国幽默作家和诗人。
  • I hear that the health care cost problem tormenting us is presently just beneath the political radar screen, for obvious reasons.
    由于显而易见的原因,我听说,让我们痛苦不堪的卫生保健支出问题目前不在政府的关注范围之内。
  • Seeing this, Lily gathered her courage and asked him what had been tormenting her all last night.
    于是,莉莉鼓起勇气向男孩发问。这问题前一天晚上已令她饱受煎熬。