| 词汇 | cruelty |
| 释义 | cruelty noun[ U or C ] uk /ˈkruː.əl.ti/ us /ˈkruː.əl.ti/ B2 cruel behaviour or a cruel action: 残忍，残酷;残酷行为;虐待 cruelty toThe farmer was accused of cruelty to animals.农场主被指控虐待动物。 The slaves were treated with sickening cruelty.奴隶们受到了令人发指的虐待。 I find any cruelty to children utterly repellent.我觉得任何针对孩子的残暴行为都是极其可憎的。 She divorced her husband on the grounds of mental cruelty.她以受精神虐待为由与丈夫离了婚。 The cruelty displayed by these torturers is hard to comprehend. This arrogant and evil character used cruelty and fear to control his whole family. Unkind, cruel & unfeeling acerbic acerbically acerbity acidly anti-cruelty cold-heartedly cruel cruelly cruelty to someone/something cutthroat meanness mental cruelty merciless mercilessly mordant trenchant trenchantly uncharitable uncharitably unchristian Examples of crueltycruelty In cases explicitly labelled as ' cruelty ' there were also grey areas of interpretation. There can be no neutrality between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty. An active nihilism, however, could provide the ground for goodness to emerge from cruelty. It did not accept the general principle that cruelty to animals for amusement was unjustified. And as you reel from the cruelty, you are struck too by the ability of music to provoke such reactions. Without such a recognition and outcry, these cruelties continue, victims are ignored, and the survivors remain untreated. In general, 16th- and 17thcentury observers of the empire understood tyranny as absolute rule based on the cruelty of the ruler. The analogy of primitive and statist cruelty is, for this reason, false. Women had to watch their steps very carefully in the in-laws' home or risk a great deal of niggling mental cruelty. The question of cruelty therefore took second place to other more pressing priorities. The question of animal cruelty thus took second place to electoral considerations. Although he has copious material to illustrate the cruelties and oppression of the colonial cotton growing system, this is not the principal theme. In those days, he wrote scorching little plays animated by malice and spite in which comedy and cruelty would regularly copulate. It does, however, make possible cruel misuses - such cruelties being visited upon both guilty and innocents. Secondary complaints were used to support allegations of adultery and cruelty, but outlined a wider range of grievances, sometimes at greater length than primary complaints. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcrueltycrueltyThese are words often used in combination with cruelty. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. act of cruelty One reads, almost every week, of cases in the country where a man is fined a few shillings for some striking actofcruelty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 extreme cruelty Other cases of extremecruelty came to light after investigation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 physical cruelty Second, another limitation concerns the measures of emotional and physicalcruelty. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with cruelty |
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