| 正面 | 5331.torture 英 ['tɔːtʃə]美 ['tɔrtʃɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 记忆方法:偷窃被拷打vt. 折磨；拷问；歪曲n. 折磨；拷问；歪曲 例句： 1. 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。 torture 拷问，拷打，折磨，痛苦来自拉丁语 tortus,扭曲的，扭成一团的，词源同 turn,torment.-ure,名词后缀。引词义拷问， 折磨。 torturetorture: see tormenttorture (n.)early 15c., "contortion, twisting, distortion; a disorder characterized by contortion," from Old French torture "infliction of great pain; great pain, agony" (12c.), and directly from Late Latin tortura "a twisting, writhing," in Medieval Latin "pain inflicted by judicial or ecclesiastical authority as a means of punishment or persuasion," from stem of Latin torquere "to twist, turn, wind, wring, distort" (see torque (n.)). The meaning "infliction of severe bodily pain as a means of punishment or persuasion" in English is from 1550s. The theory behind judicial torture was that a guilty person could be made to confess, but an innocent one could not, by this means. Macaulay writes that it was last inflicted in England in May 1640.torture (v.)1580s, from torture (n.). Related: Tortured; torturing." |