brutes

英 [bruːts]

美 [bruts]

n.  残酷的人; 暴君; 大野兽; 牲畜; 笨重难看的东西; 麻烦事
brute的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 粗野的人；残酷的人
  If you call someone, usually a man, abrute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
  1. Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.
     卡斯特是个白痴，是个残暴的家伙，他罪有应得。
  2. ...a drunken brute.
     野蛮的醉鬼
• ADJ 粗暴的；野蛮的
  When you refer tobrutestrength or force, you are contrasting it with gentler methods or qualities.
  1. He used brute force to take control...
     他靠暴力获得了统治权。
  2. Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.
     拳击考验的是技能和技术，不是蛮力。
• ADJ 本身的；基本的
  Bruteemotions or facts are basic feelings or responses to a situation, or the basic facts of this situation.
  1. ...brute loyalty to the herd.
     对群落的一种本能的忠诚
  2. ...brute historical fact.
     基本的历史事实
  3. ...the brute ugliness of nationalism and chauvinism.
     民族主义和沙文主义固有的丑陋本性

双语例句

• The lions I am talking about are the poor half-starved brutes reserved for tourists.
  我所说的狮子是那些专为观光客保留的饿得半死的可怜动物。
• It is thought and spirit that raise men above the level of the brutes.
  惟有思想和精神才能使人超于禽兽的水平。
• Soldiers! Dont give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
  士兵们，不要替那些畜生们卖命，他们鄙视你们，奴役你们，操纵你们的生命，告诉你们该做什么，想什么，感觉什么，他们把你们当牛一样训练为的只是拿你们去当炮灰。
• They're not like dogs, they're ugly, hideous brutes.
  它们不像狗，是丑陋而又令人讨厌的畜牲。
• Suddenly the foul musty odour of the brutes struck his nostrils.
  突然，他的鼻尖闻到了老鼠的霉臭味。
• Ordinary people everywhere recoil and turn away in fear from these fiendish brutes of agents.
  使通国之人重足而立，侧目而视者，无过于此辈穷凶极恶之特务人员。
• Like I remember that BG encounter with a dryad, I helped her fend off some brutes hacking her tree.
  我记得在《博得之门》中遇到了一个森林女神，我帮她挡退了一些对她的大树图谋不轨的野蛮人。
• It is in knowing what he is and what he does that man is distinguished from the brutes.
  因为人之所以异于禽兽即由于人能知道他是什么，他作什么。
• They've been working like brutes and living in poverty all their lives.
  他们一辈子干的牛马活，过着穷日子。
• These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets.
  这些饿慌了的小畜牲就会像万箭齐发一样窜出来。