cruel

英 [kr??l] 美['kru?l]

反義詞

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比較級:?crueller;最高級:?cruellest;副詞:?cruelly;

1. 諧音“酷吏哦，酷戮哦”-----殘酷地殺戮哦。
2. 諧音“酷奴哦”-----殘酷地奴役哦。
3. 諧音“可戮哦、渴戮哦”-----渴望殺戮哦。

cruel 殘酷的

來自crude，粗糙的。

cruel: cruel: [13] Aptly, cruelty and crudeness are closely linked etymologically. Cruel comes via Old French cruel from Latin crūdēlis, a relative of Latin crūdus (which actually meant ‘cruel’ as well as ‘raw’ and ‘bloody’). Both come ultimately from an Indo-European base which also produced English raw, Greek kréas ‘flesh’ (whence English creosote and pancreas), and Old Slavic kruvi ‘blood’. (Crude is a 14thcentury borrowing direct from Latin.)
=> creosote, crude, pancreas, raw
cruel (adj.): early 13c., from Old French cruel (12c.), earlier crudel, from Latin crudelis "rude, unfeeling; cruel, hard-hearted," related to crudus "rough, raw, bloody" (see crude). Related: Cruelly. Latin medial -d- began to disappear 10c. in French: compare chance/cadentia, cheoir/cadere, joyeux/gaudiosus, juif/judaeus, moyen/medianus, obéir/obedire, séance/sedentia.

1. He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.: 他仍然因出身低微而被人無情嘲笑。

2. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.: 這些殘酷的刑具是用來阻止犯人彎腿的。

3. Marion's father counter-attacked by saying that Blaze's claims were cruel and untrue.: 瑪麗昂的父親反擊說布拉茲的說法冷酷無情，根本是在撒謊。

4. The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.: 被拘留者的關押環(huán)境常常惡劣嚴酷、很不人道。