Russell heads the Cartoonists Rights Network International, and counts among his clients, cartoonists who have been imprisoned, tortured,even killed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or to put the point more properly, ? which one do you want to not to be tortured?

或者说的更明白一点，你们希望保护哪个？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He had claimed the Chechen leader personally tortured him with electric shocks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

This is somebody being tortured at the stake for merely existing, for having not confessed to being a Protestant or a Catholic or whatever.

那个人被毫无缘由地处决,或者由于新教徒或天主教徒的身份,或者其他什么原因而受罚

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There have been numerous allegations that British intelligence officers were involved in the questioning of terror suspects held abroad and that they may have known some of the suspects were being tortured.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Some few people who had sinned terribly and earned the wrath of the gods would, indeed, be tortured in some special and typically Greek, interesting way. You remember Tantalus.

一些罪孽深重,触怒神灵的人,的确会受到一些希腊式的特殊刑罚,这很有意思,你们记得坦塔罗斯

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The rights groups say at the request of the United States, Kenya sent many of the detainees to Somalia and Ethiopia, where some of them were tortured and held incommunicado for months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

The pain of stubbing your toe obviously doesn't count for nearly as much as the pain of a migraine, which doesn't count nearly as the pain of being tortured.

踩到脚趾的痛苦,远不及偏头痛严重，偏头痛的痛苦远不及被折磨的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When we tell the stories which you won't get yourselves to know next time, when we tell the stories next time, ?" and to say "OK, who you wanna to be tortured?"

等我们下次谈到,你所不了解的故事时，等下次我们谈论其他故事时，我会问，“你们希望我折磨哪个人“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The best example I can think of offhand, I should let this wait, but Peter the Great, the czar of the Russians, who may or may not have beaten his son to death, at least he ordered him tortured.

我现在临时能想到的最好的例子,就是沙皇彼得大帝,本来要等会再说的,彼得大帝是否判处了自己儿子死刑 还有争论,但至少他曾下令用酷刑折磨他的儿子

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选