Tormenting

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torment

(a.) Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.

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• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The art of being cruel, kind, merry, sad, delightful, yet tormenting. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• His lordship's extreme gentleness of disposition appeared very attractive when set in contrast with Meyler's tormenting, dogged humour. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have had her before me all this time, finding no pleasure in anything but keeping me as miserable, suspicious, and tormenting as herself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The pain inflicted by this disappointment was tormenting and keen. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• While I was defending my mask Fanny passed me, followed by Meyler, who was still tormenting her to tell him under what disguise he must look for me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I believe that, for you possess all the art of a woman in tormenting a man. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That Dutch bottle, scoundrel, contained the latest will of the many wills made by my unhappy self-tormenting father. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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