单词 | brutal |
释义 | bru·tal /ˈbruːtl/ ●○○ adjective 1 VIOLENTvery cruel and violent 无情的,残酷的,野蛮的,凶残的brutal murder/attack/assault a brutal attack on a defenceless old man 对一个没有自卫能力的老人的野蛮袭击 a brutal man 一个凶残的男人► see thesaurus at cruel, violent2 UNKINDnot pleasant and not sensitive to people’s feelings 伤人的,不顾他人感受的 He replied with brutal honesty. 他回答得太过直接。 —brutally adverb He was brutally murdered. 他遭人残酷杀害。 If I’m brutally honest, I don’t like her dress. 恕我直言,我不喜欢她的裙子。Examples from the Corpusbrutal• They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.• Some of the prison guards were brutal and corrupt.• The police are searching for the brutal attacker of a 98-year old woman.• a brutal dictator• Jerry West and Mitch Kupchak have a brutal job.• It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.• Carter was jailed for the brutal murder of a young mother of three.• Three men were charged with the brutal murder.• There was a brutal note in his voice that puzzled me.• As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.• It was so brutal, so sudden.• The game had been brutal, the aggression often boiling over into mini-battles on the pitch between opposing players.• That's an extreme example of the volatility, but it shows how brutal the market has been, analysts said.• The brutal truth is that babies are starving to death there.brutal murder/attack/assault• Detectives spoke of their disgust at the brutal attack.• Father finds son on ground after brutal attack.• Mr Purohit, a leading figure in the Hindu community, had been murdered, in a brutal attack.• No one knew whether the civil jury would hold the former football star liable for two brutal murders.• The same reports say that intelligence ministry microphones planted inside their Tehran flat picked up the sound of their brutal murder.brutal honesty• And the brutal honesty of his observations is sometimes lost in the attempt to make the words themselves beautiful.• Will the erstwhile crimson-lipped peroxide devil-doll, the very anti-Madonna, be raging with paranoia and brutal honesty on her next record?bru·tal adjectiveChineseSyllable cruel violent Corpus very and |
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