每日单词054:torture

每日单词054：torture

宝宝们，又到周五啦！难熬的夏天好像早就到了，你那里的温度是不是也让你沸腾起来了呢？今天的单词和词根貌似都很应景，一起来看看，torture.

我们来看一下 torture 这个单词地道的英文解释：

① If someone is tortured, another person deliberately causes

them great pain over a period of time, in order to punish them

or to make them reveal information.

② To torture someone means to cause them to suffer mental

pain or anxiety.

③ If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean

that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.

【发音（美式）】

下面Felix老师把今天几个重点单词的发音给大家读一下：

torture ['tɔːtʃə] n.v. 折磨

tortoise ['tɔːtəs] n.乌龟

distort [dɪ'stɔːt] v. 扭曲

retort [rɪ'tɔːt] n.v. 反驳

torment ['tɔːment] n.v. 痛苦

furniture ['fɜːnɪtʃə] n. 家具

mixture ['mɪkstʃə] n.混合物

pasture ['pɑːstʃə] n. 草地

afflict [ə'flɪkt] vt. 折磨

trouble ['trʌb(ə)l] vt. 使烦恼

persecute ['pɜːsɪkjuːt] vt. 迫害

damage ['dæmɪdʒ] v. 损害

soothe [suːð] vt. 安慰

comfort ['kʌmfət] vt. 安慰

pacify ['pæsɪfaɪ] vt. 使平静

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