cruelty的意思|cruelty的解释-里氏词典

cruelty ['kruəltɪ]

n. 残酷, 野蛮, 残酷行为

[法] 残酷, 残忍, 虐待

His name has becomea byword for cruelty.
他的名字成了残酷无情的别称.
He was treated with cruelty.
他受到残酷的对待。
His cruelty to his children makes my blood boil.
他残酷地对待孩子，使我非常愤怒。

cruelty

[ noun ]

a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering

<noun.act>

feelings of extreme heartlessness

<noun.feeling>

the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

<noun.attribute>

Cruelty \Cru"el*ty\ (-t[y^]), n.; pl. {Cruelties} (-t[i^]z).
[OF. cruelt['e], F. cruaut['e], fr. L. crudelitas, fr.
crudelis. See {Cruel}.]
1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to
give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity;
barbarity.

Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty.
--Shak.

2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of
willfully causing unnecessary pain.

Cruelties worthy of the dungeons of the Inquisition.

Macaulay.

But this man who has climbed the steps of the Depression-era criminal courts building for 42 of his 72 years, as a prosecutor, defense attorney and now judge, decided long ago not to allow the cruelty eat him up.
He cannot abide cruelty.
Miss Bardot, who retired from movie-making at age 39, lives in St. Tropez, making rare public appearences to protest animal cruelty.
The audience was kept laughing right up to the bitter end: quite a feat. Ayckbourn has frequently made powerful comedy out of mental cruelty and nervous breakdown.
Caea Sokheng and Ou Seng K, both 32, were arrested and booked for investigation of felony cruelty to animals, Bauer said.
Police forced operators of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church to shut down two games Sunday or face charges of animal cruelty.
This book is smaller, less profound than "Paris Trout," his novel of racism and cruelty in marriage, but it's mesmerizing all the same.
'It's plain cruelty when someone hasn't received his salary in five months.
Ms. Savoca manages to set up the dogfight without cruelty to either the women being chosen for their "ugliness" or the men choosing them.
He submitted to cruelty only to spare other slaves, and his faith in God was so intense that it either shamed or converted all those around him.
"We don't need to import this kind of cruelty to animals," he said.
The study, sponsored by the Swedish Save the Children group, claimed Israel's army practiced "calculated cruelty" in some cases, and it urged international protection of Palestinian children.
On the last day of January 1986, the ways of the world _ violence, cruelty and greed _ were brought home to the Dutchburns by two strangers who called them by name.
Tales of the cruelty of the Spanish conquistadors and of the Latin American fight for independence still foster resentment.
Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Kamins on Monday also was placed Guadelupe Rodriguez to three years' probation, suspended 365 days of the jail sentence and reduced the felony animal cruelty by torture charge to a misdemeanor.
The ASPCA issued summonses to the airline charging cruelty to animals, failure to provide food, water and air, and inhumane transporting, Hon said.
Researcher Edward Taub was convicted of six counts of cruelty to animals, but five were reversed by a state appeals court.
He was the true father of The Terror. For 25 years after Nikita Kruschchev had denounced Stalin's 'mistakes', says Volkogonov, the Russian people asked themselves where Stalin had acquired his cruelty.
Newkirk said the immediate goal of her group is to eliminate "gratuitous cruelty" to animals, including the testing of cosmetics, and eventually hopes to end all animal lab testing.
Prosecutor Frank Nowicki told jurors that Edwards' cruelty demanded the death penalty, and asked jurors if they could imagine "a worse way to die," as he stood before the homemade wooden box in which Small's body was found.
Kunce also is charged with cruelty to the Stevens' teen-age son and daughter who also lived in the house with the corpse, authorities said.
But what marks out today's cinema of cruelty is that the phrase has lost pejorative point in an age when films featuring brutal or sadistic events are about the excitement that characters obtain from that seemingly motiveless cruelty.
But what marks out today's cinema of cruelty is that the phrase has lost pejorative point in an age when films featuring brutal or sadistic events are about the excitement that characters obtain from that seemingly motiveless cruelty.
"They take refuge in the bedroom." The encounter was not all that unusual for the ASPCA, which enforces animal cruelty laws in the city. "At least once a year we get a really weird case," said Hon. "We had a lion out in Staten Island once.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Albert Green granted permission to stage the fights, ruling that the confrontations were no more cruel than rodeos, which the city allows, and that the city's animal cruelty law is vague.
This doesn't mean Perdue thinks its chickens are nervous; but the company is sensitive to complaints of cruelty in chicken-raising, and the spokesman won't comment further.
"You can't measure cruelty like you measure an animal's weight and size.
Sterling was released without being booked, but the case was handed over to the district attorney's office for possible misdemeanor charges of cruelty to animals or discharging a weapon in city limits, Benaske said.
Deschene, 19, was sentenced last month to a year in prison for a misdemeanor complaint of cruelty to animals.
She's as wily as any street tough, and capable of startling cruelty.

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