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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。
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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。
词根 excruciate
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excruciating adj. 折磨人的；使苦恼的 v. 折磨；使苦恼；使受酷刑（excruciate的ing形式）
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excruciate vt. 使苦恼；施酷刑；折磨
1. excruciation，英语单词，主要用作名词，作名词时译为”酷刑，拷问；苦恼“。