torture是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 拷打, 折磨, 使受剧烈痛苦，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In-cessant torture of remorse.'
-- Why do you delight to torture me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- I have looked at her when it has been such torture to me to think of her shin-ing upon what I had lost, that I have beaten my head against my prison-walls.
-- 'Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch,' he implored them, with a dreadful cry; 'but give me my work!What is to be-come of us, if those shoes are not done to-night?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I can't live with him!it's a torture to me to see him."
-- "Darling Dolly, I understand, but don't torture yourself.
-- I have spoiled...I've been the cause of that ball being a torture to her instead of a pleasure.
-- He felt all the torture of his own and her position, all the difficulty there was for them, conspicuous as they were in the eye of all the world, in concealing their love, in lying and deceiving; and in lying, deceiving, feigning, and continually thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything else but their love.
-- Of course, I see how you torture yourself over everything--the world and your son and your husband."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since the torture of the coming lunch was inevitable, he wondered why he should go on trying to resist his punishment.
-- she said, when she was grotesquely stretched on a chair of torture and indignity; when before they would give her the anesthetic, her face was green with agony.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretched-ness.
-- 62 Crime and PunishmentChapter IV is mother's letter had been a torture to him, but as re-Hgards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moment's hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter.
-- Didn't I tell you plain-ly enough to-day that you were torturing me, that I was 芒聙娄 sick of you!You seem to want to torture people!I assure you that all that is seriously hindering my recovery, because it's continually irritating me.
-- But, Rodya, nothing would induce me to leave you now!I will spend the night here, near you 芒聙娄' 'Don't torture me!'
-- 'You, too, want to torture me!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave this proceeding, throughout, theappearance of having originated in Mr. W.'s own dishonestintention, and of having been accomplished by Mr. W.'s owndishonest act; and has used it, ever since, to torture and constrainhim."'
-- Consigned to which, and to a speedy end (for mental torture is notsupportable beyond a certain point, and that point I feel I haveattained), my course is run.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You torture me to say it was done in thoughtlessness I never thought of it in that light, and I can't endure it.
-- I wish your feeling was more like mine, or my feeling more like yours!Oh, could I but have foreseen the torture that trifling trick was going to lead me into, how I should have cursed you; but only having been able to see it since, I cannot do that, for I love you too well!But it is weak, idle drivelling to go on like this.... Bathsheba, you are the first woman of any shade or nature that I have ever looked at to love, and it is the having been so near claiming you for my own that makes this denial so hard to bear.
-- "Devil, you torture me!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- M. Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
-- The idea of this visit was torture to me, yet I could not re-fuse.
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