后一个故事也老掉牙了：一个男人背负着很大的压力，已经被养家糊口折磨地虚弱不堪，强悍的妻子待他犹如垃圾，因此他在别的女人那里寻求安慰。

The latter is another familiar tale: a man under an enormous amount of pressure is regularly and publicly emasculated and treated like dirt by his wife and seemingly seeks solace with another woman.

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时间一分一秒地过去了，饥饿再次折磨着他们。

The hours wasted away, and hunger came to torment the captives again.

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被自恋症折磨的人会变得只专注于自己的事情，或者不断地自我炫耀。

Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

If you've got to torture somebody, I say in my nonethical mood,if you've got to torture somebody, do it to her.Don't do it to me.

如果你要找人折磨，我很没道德地说，如果你要折磨人，那就找她，别折磨我。

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In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.

718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他

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