Torture

(noun.) 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; 'it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession'.

(noun.) unbearable physical pain.

(verb.) subject to torture; 'The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible'.

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• He _could not_ walk on, till daylight came again; and here he stretched himself close to the wall--to undergo new torture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No; but it can give varieties of pain, and prevent us from breaking our hearts with a single tyrant master-torture. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture; but I was the slave, not the master of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Don't you feel it, don't you feel you CAN'T be tortured into any more knowledge? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I was tortured and tried to get away, and was captured and tortured again. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Presently Philotas was accused of conspiracy, and, upon very insufficient evidence, tortured and executed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You do not mean that they had tortured him? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• To avoid being tortured? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• You know the weak side of her character, and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were torturing me. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• You have the knack of torturing those who love you, beyond the possibility of endurance! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It was torturing to me to hear them talk of occurrences in which I had had no share. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• You are torturing yourself by yourself; you have destroyed the sense of pleasure, and can therefore see nothing good on God's earth. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He could dispel the seriousness of Perdita, and take the sting from the torturing activity of my nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He is a slow-torturing kind of man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To whom could the poor little martyr tell these daily struggles and tortures? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You have no idea of the tortures I should suffer, Mr. Hartright, if Louis dropped that portfolio. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It may perish with the dawn of eternity, but it tortures through time into its deepest night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Take my life if thou wilt, and say, the Jew, amidst his tortures, knew how to disappoint the Christian. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It was all over wives and angels, and eternal constancy, and eternal despair; with miseries and tortures without end. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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