torn的意思|torn的解释-里氏词典

torn [tɒ:n]

tear的过去分词

torn

[ adj ]

having edges that are jagged from injury

<adj.all>

disrupted by the pull of contrary forces

<adj.all>

torn between love and hate

torn by conflicting loyalties

torn by religious dissensions

Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Tore} (t[=o]r), ((Obs.
{Tare}) (t[^a]r); p. p. {Torn} (t[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tearing}.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to
destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear,
zehren to consume, Icel. t[ae]ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to
destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear,
Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf. {Darn},
{Epidermis}, {Tarre}, {Tirade}.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend;
to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear
the skin or flesh.

Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --Shak.

2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
as, a party or government torn by factions.

3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to
sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

The hand of fate
Hath torn thee from me. --Addison.

4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

5. To move violently; to agitate. ``Once I loved torn ocean's
roar.'' --Byron.

{To tear a cat}, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially
applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] --Shak.

{To tear down}, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.

{To tear off}, to pull off by violence; to strip.

{To tear out}, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear
out the eyes.

{To tear up}, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by
violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
foundation of government or order.

Torn \Torn\,
p. p. of {Tear}.

Williams said he was torn by conscience as a believer in "redemption" and "forgiving your enemies," saying Jesus Christ and the late Martin Luther King Jr. would approve.
In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
Inside the Yamanote train line, which forms a loop in the city's center, two-story wooden houses are being torn down and replaced by expensive condominiums.
"We're torn up," he said. "These strangers have come off the street and are intruding in our lives.
The ethics panel was deeply torn over how to resolve the Keating case, in part because Senate rules do not bar lawmakers from intervening with federal regulators on behalf of constituents or from taking actions that benefit contributors.
There are 450 Ghanaian soldiers in Rwanda under a Canadian general. In Rome, Mr Antonio Martino, Italian foreign minister, sharply criticised the French proposal, voicing fears any white troops entering Rwanda would be 'torn to shreds'.
A Coast Guard inspection Monday revealed potential navigational problems from pieces of steel partially torn loose during the vessel's voyage from Alaska, where the Valdez was involved in the nation's worst oil spill.
The wing appeared to be torn from the plane, 727 passenger Edward Duda said.
This week the rest will be torn down, and will become part of a new 15,000-seat area.
Commuters, their clothes torn and their bodies bloodied, pleaded for help as they crawled from the bus' shattered windows, witnesses told Caracol.
If it had hit the house instead of the building, it would have torn the house apart," Larkin said.
Fourteen years in government, the enforced departure of Lady Thatcher and the war over Maastricht have torn apart the fabric of loyalty on which Conservative governments could once depend. Restoring the habit of discipline will not be easy.
Most of the killings have been in Punjab, which has been torn since 1982 by Sikh guerrilla activities aimed at creating an independent Sikh homeland.
Also absolutely new from him is every character is torn, split in two parts.
Those whose buildings will be torn down were given red tags and escorted into their homes by a corps of officials wearing orange vests and hard hats.
Dukakis spokesman Steven Akey said another incident involving a campaign headquarters occurred in Tallahasee, Fla., when a big Dukakis sign in front of the headquarters was torn down.
The territories have been torn by a 22-month Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule.
The territories were captured by Israel from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East War and have been torn for the last two years by a Palestinian revolt against Israeli rule that has taken more than 800 lives.
Bulldozers have torn down seven of the most severely damaged homes.
Though completion is still five years away, by September the earthmovers will have torn into the entire 2,200-acre area that will be the train terminal on the French side.
Afghanistan has been torn by civil war since a 1978 communist coup prompted a Moslem insurgency.
Joel Steinberg was optimistic when jurors asked for clarification of murder laws, indicating they might be torn over his guilt or innocence in the death of his illegally adopted daughter, an attorney said.
It's harder to build the bottom floors of a building when the upper floors already exist." One rock "about the size of a Volkswagen Bug" and another that weighs an estimated 6,000 pounds are lodged in the torn hull, Vortmann said.
Campbell Soup Co., which has been torn by bickering among descendents of its founders, reported record second-quarter income and sales Thursday.
I found myself more torn.
"Sometimes we get a call on a Thursday afternoon saying that a church will be torn down on Monday, and can we find a home for the organ.
Then, suddenly, it becomes a graveyard of upended restaurant chairs, littered sidewalks and lost souls torn between that elusive last drink and the last bus home.
The country is torn by warfare between Christian and Moslem factions, with 40,000 Syrian troops playing a dominant role in much of the country.
"We will not allow the heart to be torn from the body of the land of Israel," Michael Ben Horin of the Committee for the Foundation of the State of Judea told a news conference.
Syria is the main power-broker in Lebanon, which has been torn by 12 years of civil war.

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