torment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 剧烈痛苦; 折磨, 烦扰; v. 折磨; 纠缠，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's a happy fellow!He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly hungry children to torment him.
-- The learned man was not at all in the most enviable state; grief and torment followed him, and what he said about the true, and the good, and the beautiful, was, to most persons, like roses for a cow!He was quite ill at last.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't understand what you want to torment me for.
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：
-- 'Don't torment me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw him wink, solemnly, at his sister, as he rose and said, takingup the cane- 'Why, Jane, we can hardly expect Clara to bear, withperfect firmness, the worry and torment that David has occasionedher to-day.
-- 'It would be better to be this poor Peggotty, or his lout of anephew,' he said, getting up and leaning moodily against thechimney-piece, with his face towards the fire, 'than to be myself, 302twenty times richer and twenty times wiser, and be the torment tomyself that I have been, in this devil's bark of a boat, within thelast half-hour!'
-- I have my doubts, too, founded on the acute experienceacquired at this period of my life, whether a sound enjoyment ofanimal food can develop itself freely in any human subject who isalways in torment from tight boots.
-- 513When I got to the office, and, shutting out old Tiffey and the rest ofthem with my hands, sat at my desk, in my own particular nook,thinking of this earthquake that had taken place so unexpectedly,and in the bitterness of my spirit cursing Jip, I fell into such a stateof torment about Dora, that I wonder I did not take up my hat andrush insanely to Norwood.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has been said that mere ease after torment is delight for a time; and the countenances of these poor creatures expressed it now.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exulta-tion and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.'
-- I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination con-jured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
-- I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burn-210 Frankensteining thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.
-- I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Exceptfor the ever-present torment that Ashley might be killed, the war interested her not at all, and nursing was somethingshe did simply because she didn't know how to get out of it.
-- She had nursed a Charleston boy in the hospital and when he died had clipped a lock of his hair and sent it tohis mother, along with the scant contents of his pockets and a comforting account of his last hours which made nomention of the torment in which he died.
-- Suspense, worry,sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
-- Oh, what fun!If he would just say he lovedher, how she would torment him and get even with him for all the sarcastic remarks he had flung at her these past threeyears.
-- For an eternity, it seemed, theywere in the midst of flaming torment and then abruptly they were in semidarkness again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment and the occupation of their lives.
-- Sending her out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with the malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers, and that all who staked upon that cast were secured to lose.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will ask what you do here, but give no answer; and let them do what they will beat, whip, pinch, prick, or torment you bear all; only speak not a word, and at twelve o'clock they must go away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is it so much, that you torment me like an evil spirit?'
-- He would have thought, even if there were no such design as that, had he brought him there to play with his repressed emotions, and torment him?
-- If your wife were a hundred times the ingrate that she is, and if I were a thousand times more hopeless than I am of inducing her to be silent if this man is silenced, I would tell it myself, before I would bear the torment of the hearing it from him.'
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