It was torture seeing him dig up my grass 这句话对吗?
torture 不是形容词啊?
张老师:
It was torture seeing him dig up my grass.
【参考译文】
看他在我的草地上胡刨乱挖真是一种折磨。
【参考解析】
咱们看看《柯林斯高阶》的解析:
torture: N-UNCOUNT 折磨;痛苦;苦恼;引起痛苦(或苦恼)的事物
If you say that something is torture or a torture, you mean that it causes you great mental or physical suffering.
Waiting for the result was torture. 等待结果的过程是一种折磨。
实际上你的句子相比上面的例句只不过用了形式主语 it 而已,即:
It was torture seeing him dig up my grass.
=Seeing him dig up my grass was (a) torture.
咱们熟悉的还有:
It is no use / fun doing sth. Use 与 fun 就都是名词。
黎老师:
在“It is/was + 名词”后面也可以接动词的-ing形式作真正主语。例如:It's fun having guests for the weekend .(摘自章振邦主编《新编高级英语语法》p.544)
torture可以作可数名词,也可以作不可数名词。所以,下面的句子是正确的:
It was torture seeing him dig up my grass.