brutish
英 [ˈbruːtɪʃ]
美 [ˈbruːtɪʃ]
adj. 残忍的; 粗野的; 蛮横的
BNC.21141 / COCA.22580
牛津词典
adj.
- 残忍的;粗野的;蛮横的
unkind and violent and not showing thought or intelligence
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 野蛮的;粗野的;未开化的
If you describe a person or their behaviour asbrutish, you think that they are brutal and uncivilised.- The man was brutish and coarse.
那人野蛮粗俗。 - ...brutish bullying.
野蛮的欺凌
- The man was brutish and coarse.
英英释义
adj
- resembling a beast
- beastly desires
- a bestial nature
- brute force
- a dull and brutish man
- bestial treatment of prisoners
双语例句
- Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
君主就是生在凡间的神,霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到,他的国家,他的生命都总是孤独,穷苦,下流,野蛮和短暂的。 - Well, dystopia is the direct opposite: a society in which life is nasty, short and brutish.
而反乌托邦则是截然相反的:在这个社会中,所有生命都是肮脏,短暂且野蛮的。 - His expression was brutish and mocking.
他的表情满是粗野和嘲弄。 - There's a difference between craziness that is smart and funny and witty and clever, and dumb brutish craziness, which there's too much of.
那些幽默风趣的疯狂和现在到处都是的那些傻里兮兮的疯狂是有区别的。 - The compiler, Fred Buller, an81-year-old former fishing-tackle salesman, reminds readers of the salmon's romantic, if brutish, life story.
小册子的编辑者,福瑞得。布勒是一位八十高龄的前渔具销售员,在书中他使读者想起了关于那条巨大鲑鱼的传奇,恍若的野性,以及作者的人生故事。 - Some cultural practices such as genital mutilation or foot-binding or bride-burning are too brutish to defer to.
某些文化上的习俗例如生殖器切除、裹小脚和火烧新娘太过残忍,难以接受。 - Man's life is nasty, brutish and short.
人生是卑鄙、粗野而短暂的。 - But its brutish behaviour will probably backfire.
但是这种鲁莽行为可能让俄国自食其果。 - The next night we revenged ourselves on the brutish giant in the following manner.
在次夜我们自己报复残忍的大人的仇,因他继续的这样做着。 - Japan had tried the more brutish British method of marauding around the region in pursuit of an empire.
日本追求帝国梦的过程与英国相似,也曾对周边地区大肆劫掠,而且手段更为野蛮。