• vt. 折磨，使痛苦；糾纏，作弄
• n. 痛苦，苦惱；痛苦的根源

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。

來自柯林斯例句

2. the cries of a man in torment

一個備受折磨的人的喊叫聲

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

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.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. It was wicked of you to torment the poor girl.

你折磨那可憐的女孩,真是惡劣.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He has never suffered the torment of rejection.

他從未經(jīng)受過遭人拒絕的痛苦.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》