名词折磨; 拷问; 痛苦; （精神上或肉体上的）折磨
及物动词使痛苦; 使苦恼; 使焦急; 曲解
1. torture的反义词
1. 拷打;拷问;虐待
If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.
e.g. French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed...
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
e.g. Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
2. torture的解释
2. 折磨;使痛苦;使苦恼
To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.
e.g. He would not torture her further by trying to argue with her...
他不愿与她争辩，让她更痛苦。
e.g. She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。
3. 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
e.g. Waiting for the result was torture...
等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
e.g. The friction of the sheets against his skin was torture…
被单摩擦着他的皮肤，简直像是酷刑。
1. Cheney is seeking to persuade Congress to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from the proposed torture ban if one is passed by both chambers.
2. There were penitentiaries or private jails in monasteries and aristocrats'residences, where instruments of torture were kept and clandestine tribunals held to punish serfs and slaves.
3. War crimes investigators will also head into Kosovo hunting for evidence of massacres, ethnic cleansing and torture.
4. Obama ordered the prison's closure and emphatically stated " we don't torture " just days after taking office as he sought to improve a sullied world image.
5. The documents argued that a long list of coercive techniques did not equal torture since they did not inflict severe mental or physical pain.
6. The administration is pretty much alone in believing that the methods the bill would have ruled out do not constitute " torture ".
7. torture
7. Wang said no cases of forced confession by torture or other illegal measures took place during interrogations that had been videotaped.
8. The original conviction came based on a confession which She says was extracted under police torture.
9. Criminal procedures also have precise articles to guarantee basic rights of the accused, such as banning torture and a death penalty waiver for female criminals who are pregnant.
10. She also went further than others in the Bush administration to insist that Americans do not practice torture or lesser forms of cruel treatment.
noun
1. torture
1. 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
e.g. it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
Synonym: torturing
2. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonym: distortion overrefinement straining twisting
3. intense feelings of suffering
acute mental or physical pain
e.g. an agony of doubt
the torments of the damned
4. extreme mental distress
5. torture
5. unbearable physical pain
Synonym: torment
verb
1. torture
1. subject to torture
e.g. The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible
Synonym: excruciate torment
2. torment emotionally or mentally
Synonym: torment excruciate rack