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TORMENT

Traducere în limba română

torment I. substantiv

1. tortură, chin, supliciu.

2. sursă de suferinţă, de chin.

torment II. verb tranzitiv

a chinui, a tortura.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It became his chief delight in life, as it became White Fang's chief torment.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Even to sit still all day at his desk, as he did, was a torment.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I saw him wink, solemnly, at his sister, as he rose and said, taking up the cane: Why, Jane, we can hardly expect Clara to bear, with perfect firmness, the worry and torment that David has occasioned her today.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"I'd wring your neck if you were mine, you old torment," cried Laurie, shaking his fist at the bird, who put his head on one side and gravely croaked, "Allyluyer! bless your buttons, dear!"

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She waited its slow progress in a torment of delight.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I have my doubts, too, founded on the acute experience acquired at this period of my life, whether a sound enjoyment of animal food can develop itself freely in any human subject who is always in torment from tight boots.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

With a great relief he turned his soul to the screen of torment under his lids.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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