释义 |
tortured, ppl. a.|ˈtɔːtjʊəd, -tʃəd| [f. prec. + -ed1.] Subjected or put to torture (lit. and fig.); tormented; wrested, etc.: see the verb.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars iv. xxxix, Eu'ry cadence as a torturde cry. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 119 The tortur'd Text. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes ii. xiii. 44 Charm'd by the melodious Strain The tortur'd Ghosts forget their Pain. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xi, Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken's roar. 1838Lytton Leila i. vi, Thy father filled his treasuries from the gold of many a tortured Hebrew. |