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 relentless [rɪ'lɛntlɪs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 无情的, 冷酷的, 残酷的



    relentless
    [ adj ]
    1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

    2. <adj.all>
      grim determination
      grim necessity
      Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
      relentless persecution
      the stern demands of parenthood
    3. never-ceasing

    4. <adj.all>
      the relentless beat of the drums


    Relentless \Re*lent"less\, a.
    Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to
    the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness;
    unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless
    despotism.

    For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . .
    Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. --Dryden.
    -- {Re*lent"less*ly}, adv. --
    {Re*lent"less*ness}, n.

    1. Yet both served humanity with an identically relentless love.
    2. Distasteful though it may be in its message and its strategies, "Bouncers" is nevertheless a tight, canny play, smartly staged by Ron Link and relentless in its drill-team assault on the audience.
    3. Whatever the outcome of Monday's election, it will be remembered for the remarkable resurgence of Liberal Party leader John Turner and his relentless attack on the free trade agreement with the United States.
    4. The last act, which crowns Il Trovatore as a great melodrama, should exercise a steady, relentless grip, but here it was disappointingly choppy and sectional.
    5. The seemingly relentless price slide drove coffee below $1.18 late last week.
    6. A black minister stepped down after church members' relentless attacks for his hiring of a white former sheriff acquitted in the slaying of three civil rights workers 25 years ago.
    7. But he is equally relentless about the failings of our society, frequently reminding readers that the U.S. has suffered grievously from the "curse of racism" and other social pathologies.
    8. But it sums up a growing concern in today's era of relentless federal deficits: that a burgeoning array of big-ticket science programs threatens to crowd out a much larger number of less expensive but valuable efforts.
    9. Even in western Germany, unemployment is rising once again. To a large extent this pattern reflects the impact of recession. But particularly in the European Community, the recent rise in unemployment comes on top of a relentless upward trend.
    10. But some Chinese who did not see the weekend events themselves could find the relentless television accounts persuasive.
    11. Political instability and the military threat posed by relentless Arab hostility have not helped either.
    12. SmithKline attributed the revised projection to relentless competition against Tagamet.
    13. What was needed was a 'relentless crusade' to stand up for the homeless and ill-housed, he said.
    14. Such predictable, relentless selling pressure probably scared away many potential buyers from both stock and futures markets.
    15. On stage, the attack is relentless, propelled by newcomer Rat Brown on drums, bassist Lee Allen Zeno and Patrick Landry on the "frottoir," the metal washboard vest played with spoons and thimbles.
    16. "A common denominator of these organizations, however, is greed _ their relentless pursuit of money," Thornburgh said.
    17. For Nixon, it was a major milestone in his relentless drive for acceptance.
    18. Also, Hooters practices relentless good humor.
    19. If his relentless impiety bugged the down-home honest folks so much, that same impiety frequently endeared him to them.
    20. The dramatic rise in both markets was almost entirely due to the relentless southerly advance of a cold air mass that meteorologists rated as one of the most intense of this decade.
    21. Even his security guard says the governor plays cards with relentless intensity.
    22. But another Wilson goal is to reduce what has been a relentless swelling in the state's welfare rolls.
    23. The leading Eurosceptic MPs and peers have already organised a relentless series of meetings.
    24. When Bessie develops leukemia, she faces her illness with the same relentless cheeriness she displays when changing Marvin's soiled sheets.
    25. Soviet spokesman Gennady Gerasimov deflected questions with the same relentless amiability of American spokesmen.
    26. Ms. Bhutto's 20-month-old government was dismissed Aug. 6 on charges of corruption, abuse of power and its inability to curb relentless ethnic and political violence.
    27. The relentless hunt for quality is more than ever the central theme of the antique and period jewellery market. Last year was a turning point for fine jewellery at auction.
    28. He is particularly strong on the relentless spread of drugs. The book is sub-titled Finding Hope in Britain, but for all his professed optimism the evidence is that Ashdown found very little of it.
    29. The family was always a shelter for individuals against the relentless collectivism of Soviet life.
    30. The judge's razor-sharp humor is relentless.
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