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tormenter

/tawr-men-ter, tawr-men-/US // tɔrˈmɛn tər, ˈtɔr mɛn- //UK // (tɔːˈmɛntə) //

折磨者,折腾者,磨难者,折磨人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that torments.
    • : Theater. a curtain or framed structure behind the proscenium at both sides of the stage, for screening the wings from the audience.Compare teaser.

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Examples

  • As Ghazvinian acknowledges, Iran’s leaders desperately wanted American leverage against their imperial tormentors.

  • Other times, his tormentor is kind to him, offering him coffee and grilling him about the great state of New Jersey.

  • “She's a nut, and her girlfriend is the devil,” Cogswell notes of her chief tormentor.

  • All the while, my tormentor kept saying, “When will you learn, when will you learn.”

  • The Jew beholds his tormentor dressed in the vestments of his own ancient culture.

  • Kazan initially had some reservations about casting her real-life beau, Paul Dano, in the role of her onscreen lover-tormentor.

  • The steam-shoveller was removed, or the tormentor irons raised, when only the harrow was required.

  • As if clutching at a hope, Pauline made a tremendous effort to get in key with her tormentor.

  • One extra turn of the tormentor's screw, and the spirit, so dauntless the moment before, yields in abject submission.

  • Finally he lost heart, and sent to beg Monsieur Gérard to come back and deliver him if possible of his tormentor.

  • Nigel, however willing to conceal his sensations, could not avoid gratifying his tormentor by wincing under the operation.