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每日单词054:torture

 Felix老师 2020-01-09

宝宝们,又到周五啦!难熬的夏天好像早就到了,你那里的温度是不是也让你沸腾起来了呢?今天的单词和词根貌似都很应景,一起来看看,torture.

我们来看一下 torture 这个单词地道的英文解释:

① If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them or to make them reveal information.

② To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental pain or anxiety.

③ If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.

【发音(美式)】

下面Felix老师把今天几个重点单词的发音给大家读一下:

torture    ['tɔːtʃə]    n.v. 折磨

tortoise    ['tɔːtəs]    n.乌龟

distort    [dɪ'stɔːt]    v. 扭曲

retort    [rɪ'tɔːt]    n.v. 反驳

torment    ['tɔːment]    n.v. 痛苦

furniture    ['fɜːnɪtʃə]    n. 家具

mixture   ['mɪkstʃə]    n.混合物

pasture    ['pɑːstʃə]    n. 草地

afflict    [ə'flɪkt]    vt. 折磨

trouble    ['trʌb(ə)l]    vt. 使烦恼

persecute    ['pɜːsɪkjuːt]    vt. 迫害

damage    ['dæmɪdʒ]    v. 损害

soothe    [suːð]    vt. 安慰

comfort    ['kʌmfət]    vt. 安慰

pacify    ['pæsɪfaɪ]    vt. 使平静

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