cruel

柯林斯词典

1. ADJ Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals. 残忍的
Children can be so cruel. 孩子也会这么残忍。
2. cruellyADV 残忍地[ADV with v]
Douglas was often cruelly tormented by jealous siblings. 道格拉斯过去常遭到嫉妒他的兄弟姐妹们的残忍折磨。
3. ADJ A situation or event that is cruel is very harsh and causes people distress. 严酷的
...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope. …在一个他们不能承受的严酷世界中挣扎着求生。
4. cruellyADV 严酷地
His life has been cruelly shattered by an event not of his own making. 他的生活由于一个非他自身因素造成的事件被无情地破坏了。

It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time .
Can't you see that you're really frightening your little brother ? Don't be so cruel.
We appear to have been the victims of a cruel practical joke .
Fate played a cruel trick on him when he was badly injured in his first international game .
Keeping animals in these conditions is unbelievably cruel - the farmer ought to be prosecuted .

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