英语单词 | savagely |
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英美音标 | 英 ['sævɪdʒli] 美 ['sævɪdʒli] |
中文释义 | adv.野蛮地;残酷地 |
英语例句 | (1) For several days, they savagely suppressed the demonstrations. |
中文例句 | (1) 有好几天,他们野蛮地镇压示威游行。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you do something savagely, you do it with fury and violence. If you've ever seen a vulture feast on roadkill, you've seen something performed savagely. |
vocabulary扩展 | Use the adverb savagely to describe something that happens with brutal force or a cruel intention. On a blustery winter day, you might complain about how savagely the wind is blowing, or need to chop savagely at the ice on your car's windshield. Savagely comes from the adjective savage, from the French sauvage, "wild, untamed, or strange," with its Late Latin root salvaticus, "wild," or literally, "of the woods." |
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