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brute [bru:t]
基本释义
- n. 畜生,残忍或好色之人
a. 残忍的,无理性的,畜生的
词形变化
参考例句
- His cruelty marks him as a brute.
他的残忍表明他是个人面兽心的家伙。 - Brute force was used to put down the revolt.
使用残忍的武力平息反叛。
英英解释
- a cruelly rapacious person
[同]
beast, brute, savage, wildcat, wolf - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
[同]
creature, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, brute
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- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
[同]
beastly, bestial, brute, brutish
[例]
- beastly desires
- a bestial nature
- brute force
- a dull and brutish man
- bestial treatment of prisoners
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