brutish

英 [ˈbruːtɪʃ]

美 [ˈbruːtɪʃ]

adj.  残忍的; 粗野的; 蛮横的

TEM8

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.
  1. The man was brutish and coarse.
     那人野蛮粗俗。
  2. ...brutish bullying.
     野蛮的欺凌

英英释义

adj

• resembling a beast
  1. beastly desires
  2. a bestial nature
  3. brute force
  4. a dull and brutish man
  5. bestial treatment of prisoners
  Synonym:beastlybestialbrute(a)brutal

双语例句

• The poor people lived in brutish conditions.
  穷苦的人生活在牛马不如的环境中。
• But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  他们尽都是畜类，是愚昧的。偶像的训诲算什么呢。
• 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。
• Unperturbed, some yaks and goats quietly graze, while a brutish dog goes berserk, tugging dementedly at a rope in an effort to get free and kill me.
  一些牦牛和山羊则继续安静的吃草，而一只凶恶的狗发狂起来，疯狂的试图挣脱绳索杀死我。
• 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。
• 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。
• Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
  琐安的首领，极其愚昧，法老大有智慧的谋士，所筹画的，成为愚昧。你们怎敢对法老说，我是智慧人的子孙，我是古王的后裔。
• Life may have been nasty, brutish, and short, but the world that contained it was in some sense enchanted.
  人生或许是肮脏、粗鲁和短暂的，但在某种意义上，这个容纳它的世界却魅影重重。
• Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish.
  你将有能力堕落为低级的生命形式，那将与禽兽无异。
• It's a short, brutish struggle, then you die.
  只是一段短暂的，残忍的奋斗，然后你就死了。