英汉词典

cruel 基本解释

• adj. 残酷的，残忍的；使人痛苦的，让人受难的；无情的，严酷的

cruel 词态变化

cruel 中文词源

来自crude，粗糙的。

cruel 英文词源

cruel

cruel: [13] Aptly, cruelty and crudeness are closely linked etymologically. Cruel comes via Old French cruel from Latin crūdēlis, a relative of Latin crūdus (which actually meant ‘cruel’ as well as ‘raw’ and ‘bloody’). Both come ultimately from an Indo-European base which also produced English raw, Greek kréas ‘flesh’ (whence English creosote and pancreas), and Old Slavic kruvi ‘blood’. (Crude is a 14thcentury borrowing direct from Latin.)
=> creosote, crude, pancreas, raw

cruel (adj.)

early 13c., from Old French cruel (12c.), earlier crudel, from Latin crudelis "rude, unfeeling; cruel, hard-hearted," related to crudus "rough, raw, bloody" (see crude). Related: Cruelly. Latin medial -d- began to disappear 10c. in French: compare chance/cadentia, cheoir/cadere, joyeux/gaudiosus, juif/judaeus, moyen/medianus, obéir/obedire, séance/sedentia.

cruel 词组搭配

cruel 英文释义

1. lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy

2. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;

"a barbarous crime"

"brutal beatings"

"cruel tortures"

"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"

"a savage slap"

"vicious kicks"

3. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;

"brutal instruments of torture"

"cruel weapons of war"

4. used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering;

"brutal weather"

"northern winters can be cruel"

"a cruel world"

"a harsh climate"

"a rigorous climate"

"unkind winters"

cruel 同义词解析

cruel, brutal, inhuman, savage, barbarous, fierce, ruthless

这些形容词都有"残忍的，野蛮的"之意。

cruel： 一般用词，指行动或态度的残忍。

brutal： 指极端的残忍，强调无情或缺乏同情心，含不择手段的意味。

inhuman： 着重缺乏同情心、仁爱等人类特有的良好的品质。

savage： 指缺乏文明人应有的教养，尤指在动怒或冲动时表现出的粗野蛮横，含野蛮意味。

barbarous： 专指只有原始或未开化的人才会有的残忍行为。

fierce： 指天性凶恶，令人害怕。

ruthless与cruel同义。强调为达到目的，对别人的痛苦毫无怜悯之心。

cruel 双语例句

1. He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.

他仍然因出身低微而被人无情嘲笑。

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2. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.

这些残酷的刑具是用来阻止犯人弯腿的。

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3. Marion's father counter-attacked by saying that Blaze's claims were cruel and untrue.

玛丽昂的父亲反击说布拉兹的说法冷酷无情，根本是在撒谎。

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4. The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.

被拘留者的关押环境常常恶劣严酷、很不人道。

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5. The wind was not as sharp and cruel as it had been.

风不像刚才那么凛冽和凶猛了。

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cruel 实用场景例句

Her father's death was a cruel blow .

父亲去世对她是一大打击。

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The dog had been cruelly treated.

那条狗一直受虐待。

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I was cruelly deceived.

我被骗得惨透了。

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a cruel punishment/joke

残酷的惩罚；挖苦人的笑话

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a cruel dictator

残暴的独裁者

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I can't stand people who are cruel to animals.

我无法容忍虐待动物的人。

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Her eyes were cruel and hard.

她目光冷酷。

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Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind (= make sb suffer because it will be good for them later) .

有时候为了某人好你就得对他狠。

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Children can be so cruel...

孩子有时可能会相当残忍。

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Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up?

你不认为把动物关进笼里太残忍了吗？

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...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope...

在一个难以应付的残酷世界里拼命求生

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By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.

十分残酷而且极具讽刺意味的是，他的马在赛场的平地上摔倒了。

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He kicked against [ at ] the cruel treatment.

他反抗虐待.

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They were the victims of a cruel hoax.

他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者.

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A mother who is cruel to her child is unnatural.

母亲对孩子残忍是不近人情的.

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The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.

残暴的奴隶主用鞭子狠心地抽打奴隶.

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The cruel captain used a scourge on his disobedient sailor.

那残忍的船长鞭打不服从命令的水手.

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He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.

他不会做出这么残忍的事.

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The cruel master beat his slaves with a whip.

残酷的主人鞭打他的奴隶.

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It's cruel to use a whip to punish a child.

用鞭子惩罚孩子是残酷的.

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Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.

他们虐待犯人的做法令人厌恶.

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The cruel man abandoned his wife and child.

那个狠心的男人舍弃了妻小.

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The former manager of the company repined against his cruel fate.

公司前经理怨叹命运对他太残酷.

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Don't kick the cat out like that, it's cruel; lift it out gently.

别那样往外踢猫, 太残忍了, 要轻轻地把猫放到屋外.

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It is cruel of him to make the donkey carry such a heavy load.

他真心狠,让驴驮这么重的东西.

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It is cruel to drown the cat in the river.

把猫淹死在河里是残忍的.

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