| 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 | 1 [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]
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