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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having arrived at Nastasia's house one day, with Epanchin, Totski immediately began to speak of the intolerable torment of his position.
-- 'You'll hate her afterwards for all your present love, and for all the torment you are suffering on her account now.
-- When he learns the truth, and finds what a piti-able being is this injured, broken, half-insane creature, he will forgive her all the torment she has caused him.
-- 'Why does everyone, everyone worry and torment me?
-- I will not marry you never, and under no circumstances!Know that once and for all; as if anyone could marry an absurd crea-ture like you!Just look in the glass and see what you look like, this very moment!Why, WHY do they torment me and say I am going to marry you?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had even a certain wish to encounter Moreau face to face; and as I had waded into the water, I remembered that if I were too hard pressed at least one path of escape from torment still lay open to me, they could not very well prevent my drowning myself.
-- I had shivered only at the days of actual torment in the enclosure.
-- My unfortu-nate imagination set to work to torment me.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
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：
-- Chapter 4 'Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury.
-- The young Mohican, who at first believed his enemies had sent in a real beast to torment him, and try his nerves, detect-ed in those performances that to Heyward had appeared so accurate, certain blemishes, that at once betrayed the coun-terfeit.
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：
-- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
-- I supposed that for some reason or other and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
-- I should have made Strickland's marriage a long torment from which escape was the only possible issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On mounds of ashes by the wayside, sheltered only by a few rough boards, or rotten pent-house roofs, strange engines spun and writhed like tortured creatures; clanking their iron chains, shrieking in their rapid whirl from time to time as though in torment unendurable, and making the ground tremble with their agonies.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inspector appeared with an expression of sadness and torment on his face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Professor was very patient with me, but it must have been torment to him, and now and then he'd look at me with such an expression of mild despair that it was a toss-up with me whether to laugh or cry.
-- Jo wouldn't be put into the opera at any price, and he had to give her up with a 'Bless that girl, what a torment she is!'
-- Jo thought, as she watched the pair, 'How well they look together!I was right, and Laurie has found the beautiful, accomplished girl who will become his home better than clumsy old Jo, and be a pride, not a torment to him.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would to Heaven that anything could be either said or done on my part that might offer consolation to such distress!But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will not torment myself any longer by remaining among friends whose society it is impossible for me now to enjoy."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't torment me.
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