基本释义
- adj.
- 残酷的; 引起痛苦的
实用例句
Her father's death was a cruel blow .
父亲去世对她是一大打击。
牛津词典
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。
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？
...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
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。
He kicked against [ at ] the cruel treatment.
他反抗虐待.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
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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真题例句
That could turn out to be the cruellest of all the twists to the Obama effect.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文Matilda's battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally fumy and frightening, but they're also aspirational.
2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.
2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文英英释义
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"
同义词辨析
cruel, brutal, inhuman, savage, barbarous, fierce, ruthless
这些形容词都有"残忍的，野蛮的"之意。