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TOEFL BNC: 4471 COCA: 4762
cruel
krəl ˈkruːəl ˈkruəl
Word forms: comparative crueller, superlative cruellest
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. 残酷的;冷酷的;残忍的;残暴的
  • Children can be so cruel.

    孩子有时可能会相当残忍。

  • 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
  • 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. (处境或事件)引起痛苦的,残酷的
  • ...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

  • 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
  • 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。

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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