英:[tɔ:ˈmentə(r)]
美:[tɔrˈmentə(r)]
英:[tɔ:ˈmentə(r)]
美:[tɔrˈmentə(r)]
复数:tormentors
大约1300年,来自盎格鲁-法语 tormentour,古法语 tormenteor “折磨者”,是 tormenter “折磨”的动作名词(参见 torment(v.))。
The first known use of tormentor was in the 14th century
1 So the story of the girl who had defeated their tormentor was passed from one to another in languages that had gone generations without once uttering the word human.
2 He growled and muttered and then lay down on his side, his eyes closed, as if disdaining his tormentors.
3 One defiant holdout and martyr reportedly astonished his tormentors by merely gasping: "More ... weight!"
4 Especially striking is the artist’s concentration on the head and shoulders of Christ; his tormentors and surroundings are more lightly rendered, as if the trials of the physical world were less real.
5 Bryan — and Eckford’s other tormentors — couldn’t be absolved by simply insisting that racism had been vaguely “in the air” at the time.
6 Now the public figures whose personal lives have long offered grist for Britain's news mill have been given a rare chance to confront their tabloid tormentors.
7 His closing remarks were a rebuke to the publicity-hungry tormentors in his own party already calling for his head.
8 That’ll certainly show your alleged tormentors that you don’t care what they say!
9 Nothing about what is going on right now supports the idea that anyone should give anyone else the benefit of the doubt, and I don’t advocate empathizing with tormentors and bigots.
10 The series puts anger on full display, but it manifests differently for the two tormentors.
11 Fast forward one year, and SoulCycle is my tormentor and my solace.
12 Like many men of his generation Lomax didn't talk about the war but relived his experiences in nightmares, until he was coaxed into confronting his demons and tormentor.
13 Dr. Schwartz said she was loaning the shofar as additional evidence of the lengths to which imprisoned Jews went to practice their religion in the face of their German tormentors.
14 All the same the woman is a tormentor, she is going to force me to say it.
15 The melody is irresistible, and its lyrics about planning revenge on the tormentor are witty and wise beyond the singers’ years.
16 In “Wolf Hall” it is More, the great imaginer of utopia, who is the ruthless tormentor of English Protestants, using the rack and the ax to set the “quaking world” aright.
17 After escaping his tormentors in North Korea, 007 Pierce Brosnan gets the "kiss of life" in Hong Kong, before jumping into the waters of Victoria Harbour.
18 On the contrary, she seems like she could clobber every single one of her cat tormentors.
19 Derrickson’s FX crew careens along the dividing line between excitement and silly bombast, conjuring hurricane-like forces and gory transformations while the holy man attempts to rescue an innocent mortal from his otherworldly tormentors.
20 He describes asking a cop to shoot him, and beating his kids, and his youthful fury at sex, and his rage during the 1960s at hippies who put him in mind of his schoolyard tormentors.