agony，anguish，torment，torture，grief，misery，distress，sorrow
这些名词均有“苦恼、痛苦”之意。
agony侧重指精神或身体痛苦的剧烈程度。
anguish指精神方面令人难以忍受的极度痛苦；用于身体时，多指局部或暂时的痛苦。
torment强调烦恼或痛苦的长期性。
torture语气比toment强，指在精神或肉体上受到的折磨所产生的痛苦。
grief指由某种特殊处境或原因造成的强烈的感情上的苦恼与悲痛。
misery着重痛苦的可悲状态，多含不幸、可怜或悲哀的意味。
distress多指因思想上的压力紧张、恐惧、忧虑等所引起的精神上的痛苦，也可指某种灾难带来的痛苦。
sorrow语气比grief弱，指因不幸、损失或失望等所产生的悲伤。
She tortured herself with fantasies of Bob and his new girlfriend.
她想象着鲍勃和他的新女友在一起的情形，心里备受煎熬。
柯林斯例句
He was tortured by an awareness of the equivocal nature of his position.
意识到自己的立场本身难以解释清楚，他备受折磨。
——柯林斯例句
The man was a sadist who tortured animals and people.
那个男人是个施虐狂，喜欢虐待动物和人。
柯林斯例句
They tortured the man to make him confess his crime.
他们拷打那个人,使他招认他的罪行.
——《简明英汉词典》
He said that he was not tortured or maltreated during his detention.
他说自己在押期间并未遭受拷问和虐待。
——柯林斯例句
There were several problems which tortured the elderly man.
有几个问题折磨着那老人.
《简明英汉词典》
He has spent periods in prison, where he was gruesomely tortured.
他坐过几次牢，在牢里受到非人的折磨。
柯林斯例句
She opened her bright, inquiring, tortured eyes and stared at him.
她睁开那对明亮的, 盘问的, 痛苦的眼睛看着他.
辞典例句
It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him.
公众对他的景仰是如何折磨着他, 那痛苦是难以想见的!
英汉文学 - 红字
He had been increasingly tortured by this feeling , of late.
这种思想近来不断地折磨他.
汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
Judges and politicians routinely looked the other way while people were tortured or killed by police.
法官和政客对警察虐待或杀人之事常常装聋作哑。
柯林斯例句
Three members of the group had been tortured to death.
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
辞典例句
Three members of the group had been tortured to death…
该团体中有三个人被拷打致死。
辞典例句
French police are convinced that she was tortured and killed.
法国警方确信她是被拷打致死。
柯林斯例句
The Inquisition had tortured rich and poor alike.
宗教法庭对西面里人不分贫富,统统严刑拷打.
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