in AM, use 美国英语用 crueler, cruelest
1.
ADJ-GRADED
残酷的;冷酷的;残忍的;残暴的 Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
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Children can be so cruel...
孩子有时可能会相当残忍。
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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？
cruelly
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Douglas was often cruelly tormented by jealous siblings.
道格拉斯经常被嫉妒他的兄弟姐妹整得很惨。
2.
ADJ-GRADED
(处境或事件)引起痛苦的，残酷的 A situation or event that is cruel is very harsh and causes people distress.
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...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
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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。
cruelly
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His life has been cruelly shattered by an event not of his own making.
他的一生被一件原本与他无关的事残酷地毁了。
- Adjective
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1. lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
- synonym： unkind
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2. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
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3. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain;
- "brutal instruments of torture"
- "cruel weapons of war"
- synonym： brutal
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4. used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering;
法律
- 1.残酷
- 1. A mother who is cruel to her child is unnatural.
- 母亲对孩子残忍是不近人情的。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
- 关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. At last the people rose up in arms and defeated the cruel rulers.
- 人民终于武装起义推翻了残暴的统治者。
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- 4. 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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- 5. Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.
- 不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。
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- 6. Fate dealt him a cruel blow.
- 命运给他以惨痛的打击。
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- 7. He deserves to swing for that cruel murder.
- 他犯下残酷的杀人罪，理应被绞死。
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- 8. He is unspeakably cruel.
- 他的残酷难以形容。
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- 9. He kicked against [at] the cruel treatment.
- 他反抗虐待。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 10. He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.
- 他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。
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- 11. 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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- 12. His cruel and callous comments made me shiver.
- 他残酷无情的批评令我胆寒。
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- 13. I had to be cruel to be kind and warn him that he'd lose his job if he didn't improve his performance.
- 我只得忠言逆耳地警告他，如果他的表现不改进的话，他会失业的。
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- 14. I overheard some cruel remarks about my husband.
- 我无意中听到一些议论我丈夫的粗鲁话。
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- 15. In the old society, owing to cruel exploitation and succesive years of tangled warfare among warloads, the labouring people led a vagrant life.
- 在旧社会， 残酷的剥削和连年不断的军阀混战，使劳动人民过着颠沛流离的生活。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 16. It hurt me something cruel.
- 这事深深地伤害了我。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 17. 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。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 18. 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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- 19. It's cruel to make fun of a cripple.
- 取笑瘸子是残忍的。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 20. It's cruel to use a whip to punish a child.
- 用鞭子惩罚孩子是残酷的。
来自《简明英汉词典》
