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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strickland seemed to bear in his heart strange harmonies and unadventured patterns, and I foresaw for him an end of torture and despair.
-- Perhaps she got enjoyment out of the torture she inflicted.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they come to torture me ""Jim," the doctor interrupted, and his voice was quite changed, "Jim, I can't have this.
-- If they come to torture me, I might let slip a word of where the ship is, for I got the ship, part by luck and part by risking, and she lies in North Inlet, on the southern beach, and just below high water.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know whether I am a liberal or something else," smilingly said Nekhludoff, who always wondered at being joined to some party, or called a liberal only because he held that a man must not be judged without being heard; that all are equal before the law; that it is wrong to torture and beat people generally, especially those that are not convicted.
-- Why do you torture the beast, and keep the milk from the children?"
-- But return me the cow; don't torture her," she cried angrily.
-- Not only did the son not reform, but contracted another debt of a thousand rubles, and told his father that he did not care if he was driven from the house, since life at home was torture to him.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why had she wanted to submit herself to it, did she still want to submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced countryside?
-- Does he think it's manly, to torture a horse?
-- It's a living thing, why should he bully it and torture it?"
-- School had been torture to him.
-- She could see the grey, awful semi-consciousness of mere pain and dissolution coming over him again, the torture coming into the vacancy of his darkened eyes.
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：
-- In the midst of these prolonged and savage yells, a chief pro-claimed, in a high voice, that the captive was condemned to endure the dreadful trial of torture by fire.
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