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

• Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish.
  你将有能力堕落为低级的生命形式，那将与禽兽无异。
• Well, dystopia is the direct opposite: a society in which life is nasty, short and brutish.
  而反乌托邦则是截然相反的：在这个社会中，所有生命都是肮脏，短暂且野蛮的。
• 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。
• Some cultural practices such as genital mutilation or foot-binding or bride-burning are too brutish to defer to.
  某些文化上的习俗例如生殖器切除、裹小脚和火烧新娘太过残忍，难以接受。
• But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  他们尽都是畜类，是愚昧的。偶像的训诲算什么呢。
• 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。
• Japan had tried the more brutish British method of marauding around the region in pursuit of an empire.
  日本追求帝国梦的过程与英国相似，也曾对周边地区大肆劫掠，而且手段更为野蛮。
• There's a difference between craziness that is smart and funny and witty and clever, and dumb brutish craziness, which there's too much of.
  那些幽默风趣的疯狂和现在到处都是的那些傻里兮兮的疯狂是有区别的。
• The idea of men beating each other senseless for pay seemed brutish to her.
  人们为了赚钱而毫无意义地互相斗殴，在她看来是野蛮的。
• Which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
  试着翻译一下：最糟糕的是人们一直处于因暴力导致死亡的恐惧和危险中，人的生命也孤独、贫乏、龌龊、粗野而且短促。