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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thought that one of his men was perhaps mortally wounded, abandoned to his fate, calling in vain on those for whose sake he had gone forth, was a torture to him.
-- Glenarvan pondered over the terrible request of Lady Helena, who preferred dying by his hand to submitting to torture and slavery.
-- Their death was speedy and not aggravated by tedious suffering; torture was reserved for the authors of the murder, who, only twenty paces off, averted their eyes from the horrible scene which was to grow yet more horrible.
-- They understood then what fate awaited them next day at dawn, and also with what cruel torture this death would be preceded.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What if I were now to commit some terrible crime murder ten fel-low-creatures, for instance, or anything else that is thought most shocking and dreadful in this world what a dilem-ma my judges would be in, with a criminal who only has a fortnight to live in any case, now that the rack and other forms of torture are abolished!Why, I should die comfort-ably in their own hospital in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor probably much more comfortably than I should at home.
-- When I asked him about you, he told me that he had long since ceased to love you, that the very recollection of you was a torture to him, but that he was sorry for you; and that when he thought of you his heart was pierced.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- 'What makes you think I shall torture you?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Renard smiled with cold contempt, as he answered: 'When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only con-solation deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
-- This idea was torture to him.
-- 'I do refuse it,' I replied; 'and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mrs. Brandley's house and out of Mrs. Brandley's house, I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me.
-- "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could, however, plainly see that my uncle was contending painfully against the extreme fatigues of our journey, and the awful torture generated by the absence of water.
-- I was literally buried alive; with no other expectation before me but to die in all the slow horrible torture of hunger and thirst.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, knowing what torture poor Clif-ford would feel at the slightest sign of flirting on her part, she gave them no encouragement at all.
-- when one can only talk!Another torture added to Hades!
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot, I cannot," cried Marianne; "leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me!but do not torture me so.
-- She felt all the force of that comparison; but not as her sister had hoped, to urge her to exertion now; she felt it with all the pain of continual self-reproach, regretted most bitterly that she had never exerted herself before; but it brought only the torture of penitence, without the hope of amendment.
-- I cannot think of it. It won't do. Then came your dear mother to torture me farther, with all her kindness and confidence.
-- Thank Heaven!it DID torture me.
-- They shall no longer worry others, nor torture myself.
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