excruciation

基本解释

Cutting into halves was not an excruciation only in late Tang Dynasty or previous Dynasties, which had existed in the early Tang Dynasty.
腰斩唐前期既已存在，并不仅仅是唐代后期或者前代酷刑等等。
Therefore the concision and concentration presented in his works is necessarily an intuitionistic spiritual excruciation , thus forms a natural distance with the world today full of spree.
因此他作品呈现出的简洁与专注就必然形成一种直观的精神拷问，从而与今天艺术的普世狂欢构成一种自然的距离。
In the viewpoint of history, the internal reason of the emergence and improvement for anti-excruciation policy rests on the enlightening of the human rights consciousness and human rights movement.
从历史的角度看，反酷刑政策产生和发展的内在动因是人权意识的觉醒和人权运动的兴起。

They not only have to experience the excruciation of deferred tax computations and the related disclosures, but also the relatively new rules on accounting for uncertain tax positions.
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