brutes

英 [bruːts]

美 [bruts]

n.  残酷的人; 暴君; 大野兽; 牲畜; 笨重难看的东西; 麻烦事
brute的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 粗野的人；残酷的人
  If you call someone, usually a man, abrute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
  1. Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.
     卡斯特是个白痴，是个残暴的家伙，他罪有应得。
  2. ...a drunken brute.
     野蛮的醉鬼
• ADJ 粗暴的；野蛮的
  When you refer tobrutestrength or force, you are contrasting it with gentler methods or qualities.
  1. He used brute force to take control...
     他靠暴力获得了统治权。
  2. Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.
     拳击考验的是技能和技术，不是蛮力。
• ADJ 本身的；基本的
  Bruteemotions or facts are basic feelings or responses to a situation, or the basic facts of this situation.
  1. ...brute loyalty to the herd.
     对群落的一种本能的忠诚
  2. ...brute historical fact.
     基本的历史事实
  3. ...the brute ugliness of nationalism and chauvinism.
     民族主义和沙文主义固有的丑陋本性

双语例句

• By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
  答应这些事物，那些畜生们答应过的事情。
• They've been working like brutes and living in poverty all their lives.
  他们一辈子干的牛马活，过着穷日子。
• The lions I am talking about are the poor half-starved brutes reserved for tourists.
  我所说的狮子是那些专为观光客保留的饿得半死的可怜动物。
• They are neither evil, nor brutes or savages as they were previously.
  和之前不同，它们并不邪恶，也不残忍或野蛮。
• But in Guardians of the Galaxy, he also summons up some emotion and even quiet desperation amid the scares and the brutes like Drax ( a terrific Dave Bautista).
  但在《银河护卫队》里，他也唤起了一些情感，甚至包括恐惧中静静的绝望，以及德拉克斯（Drax，大卫·巴蒂斯塔[DaveBautista]饰演，非常可怕）这样的兽性角色心中的绝望。
• Most eagle knights are fighters or brutes with a fanatical devotion to the God-king and their city, though eagle knights can come from any class.
  大多数雄鹰骑士是狂热信仰神王和他们故土的战士或蛮战士，虽然任何职业都可以成为雄鹰骑士。
• Thank goodness you're not hurt. you, you vicious brutes!
  谢天谢地你没受伤，你这恶毒的畜生！
• It is thought and spirit that raise men above the level of the brutes.
  惟有思想和精神才能使人超于禽兽的水平。
• Ordinary people everywhere recoil and turn away in fear from these fiendish brutes of agents.
  使通国之人重足而立，侧目而视者，无过于此辈穷凶极恶之特务人员。
• They're not like dogs, they're ugly, hideous brutes.
  它们不像狗，是丑陋而又令人讨厌的畜牲。