torment

英 ['t??ment] 美['t?rm?nt]

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復數:?torments;第三人稱單數:?torments;過去式:?tormented;過去分詞:?tormented;現在分詞:?tormenting;

torment 折磨，痛苦

來自拉丁語 torquere,扭曲，詞源同 turn,torque.-ment,名詞后綴。引申詞義折磨，痛苦。

torment: torment: [13] The notion underlying torment is of an instrument of torture worked by ‘twisting’. The word was borrowed from Latin tormentum ‘instrument of torture’, hence ‘torture, great suffering’. This was a contraction of an earlier *torquementum, a derivative of torquēre ‘twist’, which has also given English contort [15], extort [16], retort [16], torch, torque [19], torsion [15], tort [14], tortuous [15], and torture [16] (literally ‘twisting’).
=> contort, extort, retort, thwart, torch, torque, torsion, tort, torture
torment (n.): c. 1300, "the inflicting of torture," also "state of great suffering, pain, distress," from Old French torment "torture, pain, anguish, suffering distress" (11c., Modern French tourment), from Latin tormentum "twisted cord, sling; clothes-press; instrument for hurling stones," also "instrument of torture, a rack," figuratively "anguish, pain, torment," from torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)).
torment (v.): c. 1300, "inflict torture on, distress," from Old French tormenter "torture, torment, oppress, agitate" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tormentare "to torment, to twist," from Latin tormentum (see torment (n.)). Related: Tormented; tormenting.

1. Outdoors, mosquitoes and midges were a perpetual torment.: 在戶外，蚊子和蠓蟲永遠讓人不得安生。

3. Love is a sweet tyranny , because the lover endures his torment willingly.: 愛情是甜蜜的暴政, 情人甘心忍受它的折磨.