| 单词 | water torture |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater torture water torture n. any of various kinds of torture involving the use of water; esp. torture in which the victim is either subjected to the incessant dripping of water on the head, or forced to ingest dangerous quantities of water (cf. water-rack n.); also figurative; see also Chinese water torture n. at Chinese adj. and n. Additions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > water-torture (drip on head) water torture1632 water treatment1966 1632 Reply (E. India Company) 30 in tr. Remonstr. Directors Netherlands E. India Company Our people that haue tasted of this Water-torture of Amboyna, and haue heard those that suffred both there make the comparison, say, that this is more terrible & insupportable for the time, then the torture of fire. 1744 Voy. South-seas App. 29 When they found him almost dead they would let him down, making him disgorge the Water... If the Water Torture had not the Effect upon the Person they propos'd, they hoisted him up as before, and [etc.]. 1826 tr. J. A. Llorente Hist. Spanish Inquisition v. i. 171 Many blood vessels also being broken when she endured the ‘water torture’, she vomited torrents of blood. 1855 F. I. Duberly Let. 2 Mar. in Mrs Duberly's War (2007) 149 It is a life of suffering that kills you by inches—like the water torture drop by drop. 1946 ‘R. West’ Train of Powder (1955) 8 Nuremberg..was also the water-torture, boredom falling drop by drop on the same spot on the soul. 2003 U.S. News & World Rep. 23 June 18/1 [She] was also subjected to water torture. She says guards force-fed her water by pushing the spout of a canister into her mouth. < as lemmas |
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