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

• He cared neither for food nor drink, but lay still on his bed, full of tormenting thoughts.
  他茶不思，饭不想，愁肠满怀，只一动不动地躺在床上。
• 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。
• If she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!
  如果她愿走，她可以走；她在我跟前所引起的我的厌恶已经超过我折磨她时所得到的满足了。
• She thrilled with these proofs of her power that proclaimed her a woman, and she took an Eve-like delight in tormenting him and playing upon him.
  她的威力的这种种表现宣布了她已是个女人，这使她激动欢喜。她也把抗磨和玩弄他当作快乐，像夏娃一样。
• 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。
• The older children would delight in tormenting him.
  年龄大些的孩子捉弄他取乐。
• When I scolded the child for tormenting the kitten, he answered me back as coolly as you like," go away, it's not your cat and you're not my mummy. "
  当我责骂那个孩子折磨小猫时，他倒若无其事地回答说：“你走开！这不是你的猫；你又不是我妈。”
• 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。
• That it's no use to go on tormenting me!
  继续折磨我是没有用的！
• 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。