torture chamber

People have been hiding things beneath Moscow for centuries: Byzantine libraries, Ivan the Terrible's secret torture chamber, and Catherine the Great's underground canal network. So it's unsurprising that Stalin got in on the action.

几个世纪以来，人们已在莫斯科地下藏了不少东西：拜占庭图书馆（Byzantine libraries）、伊凡雷帝（Ivan the Terrible）的秘密酷刑室和凯瑟琳大帝（Catherine the Great）的地下通道网，所以斯大林也想加入他们的行列也就不足为奇了。

does the school is a torture chamber?

难道学校就是刑场?

The inside looked like a torture chamber or dungeon, except bizarrely clean and, well, shining.

建筑物的内部像是拷问室或者可以称为地下城, 超乎寻常的干净并且还, 好吧, 十分亮堂.

For many, the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.

对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。