cruel
美 [ˈkruəl] 
英 [ˈkruːəl]
- adj.残酷的；冷酷的；残忍的；残暴的
- adv.非常
- 网络无情的；令人痛苦的
词形变化
比较级：crueller 最高级：cruellest 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | ~ (to sb/sth) 残酷的；冷酷的；残忍的；残暴的having a desire to cause pain and suffering |
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| I can't stand people who are cruel to animals. 我无法容忍虐待动物的人。 |
| Her eyes were cruel and hard. 她目光冷酷逼人。 |
| Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind(= make sb suffer because it will be good for them later) . 有时候为了某人好你就得对他狠。 |
2. | 引起痛苦的causing pain or suffering |
| a cruel punishment/joke 残酷的惩罚；挖苦人的笑话 |
| Her father's death was a cruel blow . 父亲去世对她是一大打击。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Thank god your dear mother did not live to see the cruel, miserable death of her youngest child!
感谢上帝，你的母亲并没有看到她最小的儿子如此悲惨的死去。
A score of men, for this was the very thickest of the ambush, joined in this cruel and untimely mirth.
有二十个人--因为这儿是埋伏人数最多的一处--参加了这个残忍的不合时宜的作乐活动。
It sometimes seems as if God played a cruel trick on humanity by putting so much of a precious resource in such rough places.
这像是上帝和人类开了一个残酷的玩笑，将如此宝贵的石油资源放置到这样一个贫瘠的地区。
opposed to any application of the death penalty and torture of prisoners, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
反对对任何囚犯实施死刑和酷刑，或其他残忍、不人道或侮辱性的待遇或惩罚。
Now, Shylock hated Antonio. The reason for this was that Antonio had many times scolded Shylock publicly for being greedy and cruel.
而夏洛克恨安东尼奥，原因是安东尼奥曾多次当众斥骂夏洛克贪婪和残忍。
That would be cruel to Ashley, but would make him yearn for her all the more.
这会使得希礼见了要十分难受，要越发舍不得自己。
I learned a valuable lesson: No matter how cruel the truth might be, honesty is always the best policy.
我学到了宝贵的一课：不论事实会有多残忍，诚实为上策。
The cruel brahmin would not leave his bed to help the poor mother cremate the body.
那位残酷的婆罗门没有离开自己的床，去帮助可怜的母亲焚化尸体。
I am not cruel to let go, just don't want to see the bleak after ending, you will be able to be happy, you deserve better. . .
我并非狠心放手，只是不想看到以后的惨淡结局，你会幸福，你值得拥有更好的…
He is not the sort of man to commit such a cruel crime.
他不是那种犯下这样列酷罪行的人。
Spent several decades of Mars colony began implementing the plan, we were surprised to see that the cruel biological Xenn planet.
耗时几十年的火星殖民地计划开始实行了，却意外的碰到了残忍的Xenn星球生物。
The reality is often cruel and helpless in the face and eyes to accept all those unnecessary commitment on the depths of the soul.
现实往往残酷和无奈，接受和面对眼前的一切，把那些无谓的执着放在心灵的最深处。
The enemy's economic attack, closely connected to his military, political and secret-agent attacks, is extremely cruel.
敌人对我们的经济进攻，是与军事、政治、特务的进攻密切结合着的，是极其残暴的。
She was swept away by his good looks. It was only later that she found out that he had a cruel streak.
她被他英俊的长相迷住了，直到后来才发现他待人残忍。
God created life, perhaps you want is to see how the world can be cruel to what extent.
上天创造出生命，也许就是要让你亲眼看看这个世界究竟可以残忍到什么地步。
You're so cruel to her. You've cut her to the heart.
你对她太残忍了，你伤透了她的心。
Some people say it was the cruel treatment from Union soldiers that turned Frank and Jesse to a life of crime during the Civil War.
有人说，正是因为遭到同盟军士兵的野蛮对待，弗兰克和杰西才会在内战时期走上犯罪之路。
'Now , boy, 'he said, 'take me to the captain or I'll break your arm! 'And I had never heard a voice so cruel and cold.
“现在，孩子，”他说，“领我到老船长那儿，否则我就弄断你的胳膊。”我还从来没听见过这么冷酷、狠毒的声音。
The strong must rule the weak, only the natural weak never remain suspicious of the point that this is cruel.
强者必须统治弱者，只有天生的弱者才会认为这是残酷的。
My teacher's so cruel. . . I can't believe how much homework I have!
我的老师太过分了……难以相信居然布置了这么多作业！
A score of men, for this was the very thickest of the ambush, joined in this cruel and untimely mirth.
有二十个人--因为这儿是埋伏人数最多的一处--参加了这个残忍的不合时宜的作乐活动。
It seemed to me cruel that it should have been broken to pieces by a ruthless chance.
这种生活竟由于一件无情的偶然事件被打得粉碎，我觉得这真是非常残忍的。
The three heads got close together and asked one another how they could bring ill fortune on such a cruel girl.
3个头碰在一起，商量如何加祸于这个残酷的姑娘。
A few hundred yards away other Americans, our prisoners of war, still languished in a cruel captivity.
数百码之遥的另一些美国人作为战争俘虏仍然在煎受扣押的折磨。
The cruel wolf growing old, formed the gentle resolution of living on good terms with the shepherds.
这只渐渐衰老的恶狼决心改邪归正，同牧羊人融洽相处。
What, then, is bankruptcy, but the most cruel, the most iniquitous, most unequal and disastrous of imposts?
总破产还不就是最厉害，最不公平，最不合理，带来大灾大难的征税吗？
The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.
从维也纳会谈到苏共二十二次代表大会之间的那几周，一直是严峻和令人沮丧的。
How could you be so wicked, so cruel?
你怎么能这样刁钻，这样冷酷？
Her father's death was a cruel blow .
父亲去世对她是一大打击。
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind .
有时候为了某人好你就得对他狠。
He stared at me with a cruel glitter in his eyes.
他眼露凶光地瞪着我。
"It's cruel, " replied Wilbur, who did not intend to be argued out of his position.
“太残忍了。”威尔伯说，从它的角度，它并不想就此进行一番辩论。
"I don't mean to be cruel but I can't stand all that, " he said.
他表示：“我并不想变得冷酷无情，但我实在没办法忍受这些。”
I dare with you to speak the last words, does not fear meets a cruel death!
我不敢与你讲的最后一句话，不惧怕满足一个残酷的死亡！
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty.
杀死如此美丽的生命真是太残忍了。
and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.
如果把他们带回国去再送上绞架，那也算不得仁慈。
It was as if our kindly countryside, close to the very heart of England, had been turned into a cruel steppe.
它好象把我们这个靠近英国心脏地区宜人的乡村变成了一个残酷无情的大荒原。
for he stood before her when she lifted up the eyes she had momentarily darkened with her hand; 'such a cruel, bad sight. '
她放下捂住眼睛的手，发现他站在面前，“多么残酷丑恶的景象。”
The very droop of his shoulders showed that his own self- castigation was more cruel than any she could give.
连他那两个肩膀往下耷拉的模样也表现出了自责比思嘉所能给予的任何批评都要严厉。
Sirius: It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily and you so little.
小天狼星：这太残酷了：我与詹姆斯和莉莉一起度过了那么长的时间，与你在一起的时间却这么少。
and bloom explained he meant , on account of it being cruel for the wife having to go round after the old stuttering fool.
布卢姆还在解释说，他指的是由于做老婆的不得不追在那个口吃的老傻瓜后面跑跑颠颠，这太残酷了。
The warmth of the old farmer had not changed its cruel nature. It opened its mouth and bit right into the farmer's chest.
的温暖岁的农民并没有改变它的残酷性。它开设了嘴，有点权的农民的胸部。
I really do not want to break up, you know, this to me is how cruel blow it?
我真的不想分手，你知道，这对我来说是多么残酷的打击吗？
It was cruel of me to dub him the Weakest Link, even if I kept it to myself.
管他绰号叫最薄弱环节是不公平的，即使我只是自己私下这样叫也不公平。
by now in literature to the equation of one sense with another, or to be told that human behaviour is frequently cruel and irrational.
我们现在已经习惯于文学作品中描写感觉上的亦此亦彼，对人类行为往往残酷而无理性的说法也司空见惯了。
Did not he realize that it's really cruel of him to treat children like this?
难道他没意识到这样对待一个小孩子太残忍了吗？？
Sometimes it is necessary to be a little cruel, to see the truth of the matter.
有时候做人要残忍一点，才能看清楚事实。
All would have been well with her but that she had a cruel step- mother .
要不是因为她有个狠心的继母，她的一切本来都会挺好的。
At present, I think it is cruel for you to be grown up! It is not your fault. To my surprise, you could understand a great many truths.
目前来说，要求你成熟一点对你来说是残忍的，这不是你的错！然而令我惊奇的是，你还是能明白一些事实的。
So I entered the cruel world of American capitalism, learning a trade, making a living at it, bumping around for a few years.
我就这样跨入了美国残酷的资本主义世界，学一门手艺，以此为生。前几年走了一些弯路。
