cruel
英 [kr??l]
美['kru?l]
- adj. 残酷的，残忍的；使人痛苦的，让人受难的；无情的，严酷的
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词态变化
比较级:?crueller;最高级:?cruellest;副词:?cruelly;
助记提示
1. 谐音“酷吏哦，酷戮哦”-----残酷地杀戮哦。
2. 谐音“酷奴哦”-----残酷地奴役哦。
3. 谐音“可戮哦、渴戮哦”-----渴望杀戮哦。
2. 谐音“酷奴哦”-----残酷地奴役哦。
3. 谐音“可戮哦、渴戮哦”-----渴望杀戮哦。
中文词源
cruel 残酷的
来自crude，粗糙的。
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.
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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