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TOEFL BNC: 4471 COCA: 4762
cruel
krəl ˈkruːəl ˈkruəl
Word forms: comparative crueller, superlative cruellest
in AM, use 美國英語用 crueler, cruelest
1 ADJ-GRADED

殘酷的;冷酷的;殘忍的;殘暴的 Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals. 殘酷的;冷酷的;殘忍的;殘暴的
  • Children can be so cruel.

    孩子有時可能會相當殘忍。

  • Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up?

    你不認爲把動物關進籠裏太殘忍了嗎?

cruelly
  • Douglas was often cruelly tormented by jealous siblings.

    道格拉斯經常被嫉妒他的兄弟姐妹整得很慘。

2 ADJ-GRADED

(處境或事件)引起痛苦的,殘酷的 A situation or event that is cruel is very harsh and causes people distress. (處境或事件)引起痛苦的,殘酷的
  • ...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope.

    在一個難以應付的殘酷世界裏拼命求生

  • By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.

    十分殘酷而且極具諷刺意味的是,他的馬在賽場的平地上摔倒了。

cruelly
  • His life has been cruelly shattered by an event not of his own making.

    他的一生被一件原本與他無關的事殘酷地毀了。

Quotations
I must be cruel, only to be kind William Shakespeare Hamlet
Thesaurus
Thesauruscruel Also look up:
ADJ.

harsh, heartless, mean, nasty, unkind; (ant.) gentle, kind 1

grim, severe 2

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