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 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。
• Tormenting their teacher with silly questions.
  用愚蠢的问题烦扰老师。
• That it's no use to go on tormenting me!
  继续折磨我是没有用的！
• 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！
• Stop tormenting your father with such silly questions!
  别用这种愚蠢的问题去纠缠你父亲了。
• 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。
• The guards were accused of tormenting the prisoners.
  监狱看守被指控折磨囚犯。
• 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 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。
• 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。