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

• 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。
• His expression was brutish and mocking.
  他的表情满是粗野和嘲弄。
• 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。
• Which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
  试着翻译一下：最糟糕的是人们一直处于因暴力导致死亡的恐惧和危险中，人的生命也孤独、贫乏、龌龊、粗野而且短促。
• Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
  你们民间的畜类人当思想。你们愚顽人，到几时才有智慧呢。
• Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
  这人对以铁和乌甲说，我比众人更蠢笨，也没有人的聪明。
• 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。
• Resign yourself, my heart; sleep your brutish sleep.
  认命吧，我的心；愿你睡得像野兽一样。
• 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。
• The idea of men beating each other senseless for pay seemed brutish to her.
  人们为了赚钱而毫无意义地互相斗殴，在她看来是野蛮的。