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Barbaric People Describe Treatment 英 Bɑː'Bærɪk] 美 Bɑːr'bærɪk Adj.极其粗野、残忍或残暴的

英语单词 barbaric
英美音标 英 [bɑː'bærɪk] 美 [bɑːr'bærɪk]
中文释义 adj.极其粗野、残忍或残暴的
英语例句 (1) I simply can't bear your barbaric behavior.
(2) The group of barbaric soldiers killed many people.
(3) The football march had to be paused because of the barbaric supporters.
中文例句 (1) 你粗野的行为我简直忍受不了。
(2) 那群野蛮的士兵杀了很多人。
(3) 因为那些野蛮的助威者,足球比赛不得不暂停。
vocabulary简明 Things that are barbaric, are uncivilized and brutal. People have different opinions about hunting — for some, it's a way of life, and for others it's barbaric.
vocabulary扩展 You can use the adjective barbaric to describe anything that's needlessly cruel, whether it's the inhumane treatment of people by a barbaric government, or the barbaric way your neighbor treats his dog. Another, milder, definition of barbaric is unsophisticated or uncivilized, like the barbaric behavior of someone who belches loudly in a fancy restaurant. This meaning is echoed in the Greek root barbaros, which means "foreign or rude."
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]凶残的;残暴的;野蛮的 If you describe someone's behaviour as barbaric, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  [disapproval]
  • This barbaric treatment of animals has no place in any decent society.

    这种残忍地对待动物的行为是任何一个文明社会都不能容忍的。

  • ...a particularly barbaric act of violence.

    极为野蛮的暴行

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