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BNC: 6522 COCA: 8337

cruelty

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cru·el·ty /ˈkruːəlti/ ●●○ noun (plural cruelties)  
1  [countableC, uncountableU]CRUEL behaviour or actions that deliberately cause pain to people or animals 残忍，残酷，残暴 OPP kindness
 The children had suffered cruelty and neglect.
这些孩子遭受虐待，无人照管。
 There was a hint of cruelty in Brian’s smile.
布赖恩的微笑里流露出一丝残暴。
cruelty to
 cruelty to animals
对动物的虐待
cruelty of
 the cruelty of the slave trade
买卖奴隶的残忍行为
 The deliberate cruelty of his words cut her like a knife.
他故意说的那些刻薄的话让她心如刀割。
 the cruelties of war
战争的残酷
2  [uncountableU]UNFAIR the unfairness of something that happens 不公平，不公正
 the cruelty of life
生活的残酷
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cruelty• His wife denies 20 cruelty charges.• Burnett has campaigned against cruelty to animals for more than 20 years.• You have to go beyond that, transcend revenge and pique and cruelty and cowardice.• Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.• Her black eye and bruises were undeniable evidence of his cruelty.• There was an edge of cruelty to their jokes.• Each year animal welfare groups document instances of cruelty, but prosecutions have been rare.• There is in these miniatures an arresting potion of cruelty.• There have been reports of cruelty and rape from the war zone.• Within the familiarity of marriage there are many subtle ways of showing anger, contempt or cruelty.• What kind of person could treat a fellow human being with such cruelty?• But the horror which writers such as Dickens expressed at the cruelty of his times was prompted by no such knowledge.• Khrushchev officially revealed the cruelties of Stalin's regime.
cruelty to• Cruelty to animals is punishable by law.
cru·el·ty noun
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BNC: 6522 COCA: 8337
cruelty

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ADJECTIVE | VERB + CRUELTY | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤extreme, great極端／非常殘酷◇an act of extreme cruelty一種極端殘酷的行為➤deliberate (especially BrE) 蓄意的殘暴▸➤casual不經意的殘酷▸➤mental精神虐待▸➤animal, child (especially BrE) 虐待動物／兒童◇Cases of child cruelty occur more often than they are observed.虐待兒童的事例實際發生的比看到的要多。➤human人類的殘忍◇the depths of human cruelty人類的極端殘忍VERB + CRUELTY➤inflict, show (sb)使遭受殘暴；（對某人）表現出殘暴◇How can you inflict such cruelty on a child?你怎能如此虐待一個孩子？◇Her stepmother showed her nothing but cruelty.她的繼母對她只有虐待。➤suffer遭受虐待◇The children suffered mental cruelty and neglect.孩子們受到精神虐待，缺乏關愛。➤see看到殘忍的行為◇She was shocked to see such cruelty.看到這樣的殘忍行為她很震驚。PREPOSITION➤cruelty to, cruelty towards/toward對⋯的虐待◇cruelty to animals對動物的虐待
BNC: 6522 COCA: 8337
BNC: 6522 COCA: 8337

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