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 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 poor people lived in brutish conditions.
  穷苦的人生活在牛马不如的环境中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, some point out that Britain has a long history of brusque and occasional brutish behavior.
  的确，有些人指出英国有长久的粗鲁和偶尔粗鲁的行为。
• All in all, life has ceased to be quite so poor, nasty, brutish and short.
  总的来说，人类生活不再那么贫困、肮脏、野蛮和短暂。
• 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。
• 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。
• But while animal rights in China are improving, life for much of its human population remains largely nasty, brutish and short.
  不过，尽管中国的动物权利正在改善，大多数中国人的生命依然肮脏、野蛮和短暂。