cruel的意思|cruel的解释-里氏词典

cruel ['kruəl]

a. 残酷的, 令人极痛苦的

[法] 残忍的, 残酷的

The death of their daughter was a cruel blow.
女儿的死对他们是一个残酷的打击。
We shouldn't be cruel to animals.
我们不应该对动物残忍。
He is a cruel assassin.
他是个残忍的杀手。

cruel

[ adj ]
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
<adj.all>
a barbarous crimebrutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks

Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), n.
See {Crewel}.

Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[e^]l), a. [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis,
fr. crudus. See {Crude}.]
1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to
hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic
kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted;
merciless.

Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . .
they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi.
22,23.

2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their
wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix.
7.

3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.

You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength.
--Shak.

Fate is cruel: Mr Lawson may be partly to blame, but Mr Major cannot avoid carrying the can for the depression that today threatens his political career.
These are code words of judicial activism, not part of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment."
When the Arizona Senate opens Gov. Evan Mecham's impeachment trial Monday, it will embark on a course laid out in England as a way to remove cruel kings and brought to America in Colonial days as a way to protect democracy.
"I regret that my concern for the poor and the environment was so dishonestly misinterpreted and misused to perpetrate a cruel hoax on 4 million Americans who are already broken beyond any measure of understanding," Sheen said in a statement.
The high court in 1977 ruled that such disciplinary measures never can amount to the "cruel and unusual punishment" banned by the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
It is the story of a cruel and crude Afrikaner farmer who keeps his black workers on inhumanly short rations.
The justices in 1977 ruled that public school disciplinary measures involving physical force never can amount to the "cruel and unusual punishment" banned by the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
Castigating those who make "cruel" charges that Brazil is destroying its vast jungle, President Jose Sarney has announced a $350 million plan to protect its Amazon rain forest.
"It's a cruel thing to do to people," he said. "Unfortunately, we cannot have a write-in candidate in Nevada.
The mathematics of investment is always fascinating, but it can also be very cruel. Another mathematical consequence of the Japanese market's dramatic decline is that its capitalisation is now less than that of the combined European markets.
In a separate decision, the court ruled unanimously that a convicted Oklahoma killer was wrongly sentenced to death for having committed an "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" crime.
Why are they so cruel?
The Council of Lloyd's is caught in a cruel dilemma.
Time has been cruel to Teenie Harris.
MILWAUKEE - Every day, Gloyce Qualls lives with a cruel choice she made six years ago: She traded her fertility for her job.
Rep. Steve Bartlett (R., Texas) called the legislation "a cruel hoax which would mandate one-benefit-fits-all."
Now the question is, how much is his freedom going to cost the virtuoso dealmaker? A tearful Ivana Trump left court a single woman Tuesday after a judge, citing Trump's "cruel and inhuman treatment" of his wife, dissolved their 13-year marriage.
The pontiff recalled the "cruel tyranny" of Nazism during a meeting with President Waldheim, who has been accused of committing war crimes while serving in Hitler's army.
"For many people, the promise of tax-deferred savings is a cruel hoax," the study said.
Perry's lawyers argue that forcible medicating would be a cruel and unusual punishment that ignores Perry's rights to avoid unwanted medication.
The high court is to decide by July whether imposing the death penalty on murderers who committed their crimes before reaching the age of 18 represents the "cruel and unusual punishment" banned by the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
He was a zealous Moslem who stamped Islamic law on his nation, but did not enforce such cruel punishments as amputation for theft and stoning to death for adultery.
After all, he has been on the scene through nearly 50 years of Japan's evolution from cruel and arrogant militarism to postwar destitution to constitutional democracy to industrial restoration, and ultimately to today's role as a major industrial power.
"We do not want to go back to war, but we should not forget the cruel lessons we have learned that a truce cannot be translated into peace and stability unless it is coupled with political reconciliation to solve the crisis," Hoss said.
"They come to your own house, eat your own groceries, play with your young ones, then do something like that _ that's what I call cruel," he said.
Earlier Friday, county animal control officer Frankie Thorp watched a 15-year-old mule named Kit dive into the pool of water and determined the act was not cruel.
Myra Carter, as the dowager herself, is mercurial - girlish, then dottily forgetful, then fiendishly cruel.
April is proving to be another cruel month.
The resulting reductions in government deficits, they reason, would slow inflation, a cruel tax on the poor.
Actually, Mr. Auletta paints him more comic than cruel, as a kind of visionless Mickey of the Three Blind Mice.

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