brutality的意思|brutality的解释-里氏词典

brutality [bru:'tæliti]

n. 残忍, 无慈悲, 野蛮的行为

By her sweetness Ivy managed to survive the drawn-out brutality.
艾薇靠着自己随和的性情，总算在持续很久的残忍中生存了下来。
Marked by brutality or depravity.
残忍的，野蛮的表现为残忍的或野蛮的
He sank to the depths of selfish brutality.
他堕落到极端自私残忍地地步。

brutality

[ noun ]

the trait of extreme cruelty

<noun.attribute>

a brutal barbarous savage act

<noun.act>

Brutality \Bru*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Brutalities}. [Cf. F.
brutalit['e].]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness;
pitilessness.

2. An inhuman act.

The . . . brutalities exercised in war. --Brougham.

The August incident and another in which a black man was shot to death by police sparked allegations of police racism and prompted City Council hearings on police brutality.
He said he defected because he "detested the brutality of communism." Government spokesman Shaw Yu-ming said at a news conference that authorities were investigating the air piracy.
He was watching." Israel radio reported that in July, a Givati soldier committed suicide and another shot himself in the foot to escape brutality from comrades.
Especially not if Saddam preserves his internal power through massive brutality, with the potential of renewed oil revenues to rebuild nuclear and chemical facilities while playing to mobs with anti-Western resentments.
In an isolated case of loyalty to a commander, troops in the northern port city of St. Marc killed a 12-year-old boy ednesday when they fired into a mob about to attack the home of a sergeant with a reputation for brutality, witnesses said.
Amnesty International today urged Burma's leaders to investigate alleged brutality by authorities who quelled riots in which scores of people died.
So far, 120 brutality complaints relating to the melee have been filed with the police Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Judge Jack B. Tso dismissed defense pleas for leniency, saying the brutality of the crime justified a maximum penalty.
Strategically, this man is a capricious dictator whose lust for power is as unlimited as his brutality in the pursuit of it.
Despite its condemnation of military brutality and human-rights abuses in Haiti, the Catholic hierarchy has long opposed Aristide's political proselytizing of the poor.
People outraged over a protest group's announced plan to burn a puppy to demonstrate the brutality of war in Nicaragua today flooded a radio station and the county humane society with calls.
"I realize the sacrifices that Saddam (Hussein's) brutality has caused this nation," Bush siid, departing from his prepared text.
In August 1988, the park was the scene of a four-hour melee that left 52 people injured and led to the filing of more than 110 claims of police brutality.
Recalling his experience, Lammerding described Iraqi brutality accompanied by a low level of military professionalism.
Both Nosiglia and Federal Police Chief Juan Pirker rejected union charges of police brutality and blamed agitators for the violence.
An individual who is not qualified is not hired." Singled out for praise from the White House as the year began, the city police department will close 1990 struggling to restore its image after a rash of brutality and racism allegations.
Their lawsuit alleged that racial bias sparked police brutality.
I don't want to pass judgment on individual leaders, but I want to make very clear to those leaders and to the rest of the world that the United States denounces the kind of brutality that all of us have seen on our television.
Two bearded rabbis recently slipped under the cover of night into an occupied West Bank village to question residents about allegations of Israeli troop brutality during an army-imposed curfew.
Arrests and prison brutality followed, many monks and nuns were expelled from their religious houses and troops posted in the monasteries.
Police have resorted to rougher, more expedient arrest tactics this week, which has led to charges of brutality from Operation Rescue and its leader, Randall Terry.
The rap on him, now and always, is "brutality."
He said the president had not ruled this out. Benjamin Hooks, of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, said the question of police brutality could not be avoided.
The nation's largest sheriff's force is seeing its once-shining image dimmed by a major drug money scandal, large brutality settlements and allegations of ganglike behavior by some deputies.
Pollack avoids the polemics of the rebel cause and aims his camera on the decadence and brutality of the Batista regime.
In his acceptance speech Tuesday, Krenz called for an end to street protests but also said he would look into the police brutality charges.
The three judges said Demjanjuk "killed masses of human beings with his own hands," frequently exceeding the brutality ordered by Nazi commanders.
Emerging names like Malenkov, Khrushchev and Imre Nagy hinted change from the era of fear and brutality under Stalin and his puppets in Hungary, Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero.
Turkey's enemies, notably Syria, have armed and trained the PKK. Far from winning hearts and minds, crack anti-guerrilla 'special teams' are hated for their brutality.
"I could not believe the level of brutality that was going on here," protest leader Randall Terry said Tuesday as police dragged or carried protesters who resisted arrest by crawling on hands and knees.

您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......

2005 - 2024 Dict.li Online Dictionary

验证码
用户名
密　码
	注册