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N-UNCOUNT
極度痛苦；苦惱萬分；折磨
Torment is extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
例句
The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
因孩子被綁架所受的萬分折磨全寫在她臉上。
He spent days in torment while the police searched for his stolen car.
在警方搜尋他遭竊汽車的同時，他在極度苦惱中過了好些天。
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N-COUNT
使人痛苦的事;折磨人的事
A torment is something that causes extreme suffering, usually mental suffering.
例句
Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer...
或早或晚，大多數作家最終都會著書講述身為作家的苦惱。
Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.
在戶外，蚊子和蠓蟲永遠讓人不得安生。
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VERB
折磨;使痛苦萬分
If something torments you, it causes you extreme mental suffering.
例句
At times the memories returned to torment her...
有時，她再度想起往事，又會痛苦萬分。
He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy.
他徹夜未眠，深受嫉妒的折磨。
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VERB
戲弄;作弄
If you torment a person or animal, you annoy them in a playful, rather cruel way for your own amusement.
例句
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來戲弄我。