[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm reading a book about a character named Tom and it says 'Tom was tortured.' Could you please help me understand what that would be in Italian, as I'm trying to improve my language skills?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The sentence 'Tom was tortured' translates to 'Tom fu torturato' in Italian. This is the correct way to express that Tom suffered torture in the past."}]