crueller

英 [ˈkrʊələ] 美 [ˈkruələr]

adj.  残酷的; 冷酷的; 残忍的; 残暴的; 引起痛苦的
cruel的比较级



柯林斯词典

    in AM, use 美国英语用 crueler, cruelest

  1. ADJ-GRADED 残酷的;冷酷的;残忍的;残暴的
    Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
    1. Children can be so cruel...
      孩子有时可能会相当残忍。
    2. Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up?
      你不认为把动物关进笼里太残忍了吗?
  2. ADJ-GRADED (处境或事件)引起痛苦的,残酷的
    A situation or event that is cruel is very harsh and causes people distress.
    1. ...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope...
      在一个难以应付的残酷世界里拼命求生
    2. By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.
      十分残酷而且极具讽刺意味的是,他的马在赛场的平地上摔倒了。

双语例句

  1. Of course, 2012 has been far crueller to Facebook.
    显然,2012年对Facebook就要残酷得多。
  2. She believed the alternative was crueller: watching him die slowly of hunger and thirst as his life-support mechanism was switched off-assuming that this had been allowed by the high court.
    她之所以这样做是因为坚信其他抉择更加残忍:因为所有维持生命的机制都被切断,她只能眼睁睁地看着他慢慢死于饥渴&她假定这些都获得了高等法院的允许。
  3. I think that what it is, is not that the world has become crueller, it's just that we hold our children back from a very early age.
    我觉得问题并不是世界变得越来越残酷,而是我们从小就把孩子呵护得太紧。
  4. One of the crueller ironies of George W. Bush's second term is that the president has listened to his critics.
    乔治•布什(GeorgeW.Bush)第二个总统任期的最大讽刺之一是,他听取了批评者的建议。
  5. Nothing's crueller than a woman.
    没有什么比女人更残忍的。
  6. I hope my films can help in any small way to help your imagination become at least a little bit crueller.
    我希望我的电影能帮助你们把你们的想象变得更残忍那么一点点。
  7. As long as it stays in the realm of imagination, the crueller the better-that's healthy.
    只要是在想象之中,越残忍越好,这是健康的。