A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
酷刑
Torture
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
婚姻是一种折磨。
Anyone will say anything under torture.
在严刑拷打下,任何人都会说出任何话。
Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
独立电影的定义是用更少的钱和时间折磨人。
Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.
关于酷刑问题的公开辩论和充分论述是一把双刃剑。
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
当你每天早上都要进入角色时,给它你的声音,你的脸,这是一种折磨。
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
一个懦夫可怜虫,他的手和心都能忍受下面的任何折磨,他总是第一个畏缩,从最轻微的痛苦或同等的敌人开始。
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.
我想最近发生的事情已经证实了我在书中所表达的怀疑,我认为我所指出的一些事情已经更清楚了。例如,我在书中有一部分谈到了酷刑的可能性。
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
公平地说,他们只在刑讯逼供结束后才招供,他们声称招供是自愿的;如果他们没有坦白,酷刑会再次开始的事实只是一个小细节。