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Heartless Meaning 英 Hɑːtləs] 美 Hɑːrtləs Adj.无情的;残酷的 Time Crossed

英语单词 heartless
英美音标 英 ['hɑːtləs] 美 ['hɑːrtləs]
中文释义 adj.无情的;残酷的
英语例句 (1) The heartless time crossed a page again.
(2) Smile seemed heartless in its brilliancy .
(3) The heartless witch cast a spell on the poor little girl.
中文例句 (1) 无情的时间又翻过了一页。
(2) 那容光焕发的微笑似乎是残酷的。
(3) 狠心的女巫对孤苦无助的小女孩施发妖术。
vocabulary简明 Someone who's heartless is inconsiderate and insensitive to other people's feelings. It would be heartless to smash a little kid's carefully carved Jack o' lantern.
vocabulary扩展 A heartless person might respond glibly to a friend's sad story about his sick grandmother, or push a hungry cat out the door on a rainy night. If you're heartless, you're cold and uncaring. Another, older meaning of this adjective is "lacking courage," from the Old English heortleas, "dispirited or dejected." The modern meaning was coined by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.
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]残忍的;狠心的;无情的 If you describe someone as heartless, you mean that they are cruel and unkind, and have no sympathy for anyone or anything.
  • I couldn't believe they were so heartless...

    我无法相信他们竟如此狠心。

  • It was a heartless thing to do.

    这样做太残忍了。

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