1.拷打；拷问；酷刑the act of causing sb severe pain in order to punish them or make them say or do sth
Many of the refugees have suffered torture.许多难民都遭受过拷打。
the use of torture施酷刑
terrible instruments of torture可怕的刑讯工具
His confessions were made under torture .他被屈打成招。
I heard stories of gruesome tortures in prisons.我听说过监狱里令人毛骨悚然的刑讯。
2.(informal)（精神上或肉体上的）折磨，痛苦；折磨人的事物mental or physical suffering; sth that causes this
The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.这次面试从头至尾使人备受煎熬。
1.拷打；拷问；严刑逼供to hurt sb physically or mentally in order to punish them or make them tell you sth
Many of the rebels were captured and tortured by secret police.反叛者中许多人被捕并遭受到秘密警察的酷刑。
He was tortured into giving them the information.他受不住酷刑被迫向他们供出了情报。
2.~ sb使痛苦；使苦恼；使焦急；使受煎熬to make sb feel extremely unhappy or anxious
He spent his life tortured by the memories of his childhood.童年的记忆使他痛苦了一辈子。
opposed to any application of the death penalty and torture of prisoners, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
反对对任何囚犯实施死刑和酷刑，或其他残忍、不人道或侮辱性的待遇或惩罚。
If you're the kind of person who thrives when interacting with other people, sitting alone in a cubicle all day can be absolute torture.
如果你擅长与人交往，那么一个人成天呆在办公室会十分地痛苦。cubicle一个大的办公室内间隔起来的个人办公区域，很小。
In the night terrible dreams had broken his sleep, and made it a long torture.
在可怕的梦打破了他的睡眠，使之成为长期的酷刑。
At least that's the talk this week as the judges up the torture quotient, taking train-wreck TV viewing to a whole new level.
至少这讲座本周起酷刑商数作为法官，同时列车电视收看到毁掉整个新水平。
What's a musician to do when he finds out that his music may have been used to torture people?
当一个音乐人发现自己的音乐可能被用来拷问和折磨别人的时候他会有何反应？
And yet, torture is still practised or tolerated by many States. Impunity persists for the perpetrators. The victims continue to suffer.
然而，在许多国家，酷刑依然存在或得到容忍。施加酷刑者依然不受惩罚。受害者继续忍受痛苦。
Torture was formerly used to make people give evidence about crimes, or to make them confess.
酷刑拷打原本用来逼迫受刑者给出犯罪证据，或是认罪。
It is not to torture or kill its own ethnic nationals and was not formed to be used for an individual group or any dictator.
（所以，我认为，）军队绝不是用来对自己的少数民族同胞实施折磨或者杀戮的，军队绝不是为了某个个体组织或者任何一个独裁者而被组建的。
He had abandoned wish of saving him, and was no longer disposed to retard the more serious part of the torture.
他不再想挽救他，不打算再拦阻对他施用更严酷的刑罚了。
She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.
她对俄国扶持的车臣领导嗤之以鼻，她指责他们打着苦难和绑架的幌子掠夺重建资金。
Miraculously, she survived years of prison and torture and began searching for her son.
奇迹般地从多年监禁和折磨中活过来以后，她开始寻找儿子。
ChenLiGong believe I can survive the torture, her teeth were dial the out, she said I could make it through the pass is due to ChongFeng.
陈丽红置信本人能挺过酷刑，她的牙齿被拨了出来，她说本人能熬过这一关是由于崇奉。
To have secured my acquittal by such means would have been a life-long torture to me.
假使通过这种手段使自己获判无罪，对于我将是永生的折磨。
He said, "Some of these crew members may be subjected to the physical and mental torture. "
他说，“这些船员中有些人可能经受了身体和精神上的折磨。”
Forcing the body is not self-torture, do not eat not sleep at times may seem extreme, but it has its value.
强迫身体并不是自我折磨，不吃不睡有时看起来似乎很极端，但它却有其价值。
It seemed so foreign to his pain that he failed to understand his torture of the five previous nights.
现在这牙看起来和他的牙疼没啥关系，真搞不懂之前五个晚上怎么就在受它的折磨。
make it a protection for me from the Hell-Fire, from punishment and from torture in the Hereafter.
让它成为我免于后世火狱，惩罚和折磨的盾牌吧。
It is often elucidated that the prisoner died from cruel torture in prison. The traditional viewpoint isn't consistent with related records.
传统观点认为“考竟”是犯人受拷问死在狱中，与史籍中的有关记载不能吻合。
He said the use of torture reflected America "losing our moral bearings" .
他说刑讯逼供反映出美国‘正在失去我们的道德观念’。
If I can 'see' such a world, is also worthy of death, fate is always so why torture me?
要是我也能‘看’一眼这样的世界，死也值得，为何命运总是这样折磨我呀？
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