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

• 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。
• The bigger kids keep tormenting him.
  那些大一些的孩子一直在作弄他。
• I wasn't tormenting anyone.
  我没有欺负任何人。
• 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。
• 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。”
• The study discovered that certain pain-associated words such as` tormenting` or` gruelling` stimulate the pain area of the brain-even when no pain is actually administered.
  研究人员发现，人们听到一些与疼痛相关的词汇（例如痛苦的、折磨人的）时，脑部与痛感相关的区域会被激活&即便这些痛感并非实际存在也会让人产生疼痛感。
• 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。
• 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。
• He were a child tormenting a dog.
  就像小孩子拿只狗折腾取乐似的。
• That it's no use to go on tormenting me!
  继续折磨我是没有用的！