Tormentor

tormentor







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[tawr-men-ter, tawr-men-]

使苦痛的人(或事物)

【海】長肉叉

【農】輪耙

【電影】防回聲幕



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–noun 

1. a person or thing that torments. 

2. Theater. a curtain or framed structure behind the proscenium (古希臘,羅馬的) 舞臺 at both sides of the stage, for screening the wings from the audience. Compare teaser (def. 2). 



Also, tormenter.





  

One night in a tavern Ines (Natalie Portman) decides not to eat the roast pork; it is not a dish she particularly cares for. The next thing she knows she is being tortured by the Inquisition on the grounds that her dietary preference is dictated not by taste but by a secret adherence to Judaism. She is then jailed (for 15 years), impregnated by her chief tormentor, Father Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) and driven mad, largely because her child is taken from her. 



That judgment applies particularly to Bardem's performance as the loathsome Lorenzo. In the beginning, as he volunteers to lead the newly revived Inquisition, he is all soft-voiced reason. He is polite to the point of obsequiousness, not only to his church superiors, but even to the people he torments.