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

• Soldiers! Dont give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
  士兵们，不要替那些畜生们卖命，他们鄙视你们，奴役你们，操纵你们的生命，告诉你们该做什么，想什么，感觉什么，他们把你们当牛一样训练为的只是拿你们去当炮灰。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tammuz: A Promethean Lineage. Brutes reborn in the womb of the earth and stricken with an excess of melancholic humour. Their Progenitor was a Babylonian Golem.
  塔穆兹：活尸的世系之一。他们在大地的子宫中重生，体质以黑胆汁为主。其先祖为巴比伦的魔偶。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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'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。
• Like I remember that BG encounter with a dryad, I helped her fend off some brutes hacking her tree.
  我记得在《博得之门》中遇到了一个森林女神，我帮她挡退了一些对她的大树图谋不轨的野蛮人。
• 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。