barbarous

英 [ˈbɑːbərəs]

美 [ˈbɑːrbərəs]

adj.  残酷的; 骇人听闻的; 缺乏教养的; 粗野的

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BNC.20500 / COCA.24373

牛津词典

adj.

• 残酷的；骇人听闻的
  extremely cruel and shocking
  1. the barbarous treatment of these prisoners of war
     对这些战俘的残酷待遇
• 缺乏教养的；粗野的
  showing a lack of education and good manners

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 粗野的；未开化的；野蛮的
  If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
  1. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
     他认为惠特曼的诗歌太粗俗。
• ADJ-GRADED 残暴的；极其残忍的；凶残的
  If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
  1. ...a barbarous attack.
     凶残的进攻

英英释义

adj

• primitive in customs and culture
• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  1. a barbarous crime
  2. brutal beatings
  3. cruel tortures
  4. Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
  5. a savage slap
  6. vicious kicks
  Synonym:brutalcruelfellroughshodsavagevicious

双语例句

• The reactionary and barbarous character of Japan's war constitutes the primary reason for her inevitable defeat.
  日本战争的退步性和野蛮性是日本战争必然失败的主要根据。
• I want them to do away with this barbarous custom.
  我希望他们废除这种野蛮的习俗。
• A brutal barbarous savage act.
  一种残忍、野蛮、原始、的行为。
• The language in which the hag addressed them was a strange and barbarous Latin.
  那个母夜叉对他们说话时所用的语言是一种古怪而不规范的拉丁语。
• No government anywhere subjects its own people to such a barbarous regime of fear, repression and hunger.
  没有任何地方的政府会将本国人民压制在这种充满恐惧、压抑和饥饿的野蛮体制中。
• Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people.
  你知道阿拉伯人是一只野蛮民族。
• It's likely to be the most barbarous war that we have ever known.
  这将会是一场我们所知道的最残忍的战争。
• Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.
  跟你一样贪婪，野蛮跟残忍。
• S.Korea is the national civilization, not the barbarous country.
  韩国是文明国家，不是野蛮国家。
• This barbarous enemy policy will be carried deeper into the interior of China.
  敌人的这一野蛮政策，还要施之于更深的内地。