| 释义 |
Examples:sticks used for squeezing the fingers (old form of torture)—torture sb using electricity—strip, tie up, hang and beat sb, an ancient torture technique—interrogation under torture—vise (as torture instrument)—the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument)—leg vise (torture instrument)—UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)—torture chamber (esp. unofficial)—ancient instruments of torture—torture and cruel treatment—free oneself from a life of torture—water-boarding (torture)—squeeze the fingers (old form of torture)—extort confession by torture—knife, saw, ax and hatchet (idiom); facing torture and execution—squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)—battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution—suffer (e.g. under torture)—drowning sb. tied a rock (as a form of torture)— |