beast的意思|beast的解释-里氏词典

beast [bist]

n. 畜生, 动物, 野兽, 兽性

The lion is called the king of beasts.
狮子号称百兽之王。
Stop goading the poor beast!
别再驱赶那可怜的动物了！
Clumsy beast!
笨拙的畜生！

beast

[ noun ]

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

<noun.tops>

a cruelly rapacious person

<noun.person>

Beast \Beast\ (b[=e]st), n. [OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F.
b[^e]te, fr. L. bestia.]
1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects,
etc. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food,
or sport; as, a beast of burden.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
--Prov. xii.
10.

3. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to {man}.

'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
--W. C.
Fields.

4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.

5. A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] --Wright.

6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to
be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

{Beast royal}, the lion. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Syn: {Beast}, {Brute}.

Usage: When we use these words in a figurative sense, as
applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere
animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as
being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and
governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of
beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of
brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity.
So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made
himself a beast, and then treated his family like a
brute.

British wine journalism is still informed by the notion that the writer's job is to demystify this curious foreign beast called wine and swell the ranks of wine drinkers.
She also shelled out $80 to have a professional masseur massage her beloved beast.
Firstly, even by emerging market standards, Africa is an unusual beast.
This beast was extinct in the wild until it was reintroduced to the stony Oman central desert preserve at Yalooni in the Jiddat al Harasis.
The beast, they say, might have changed its habits.
The first offered a documentation of the physical/surgical realities of a supposed serial killing case, plus a consultant psychopath (Anthony Hopkins's Hannibal Lecter) who mesmerised the world with his mixture of beast and boffin.
He and the hunter met in the brush-studded Chipangali region of eastern Zambia, heavily infested by trypanosomiasis - a disease borne by tsetse files that can be fatal to man and beast.
But he brushes aside talk of the bank being an untameable beast.
A mahout holds the elephant's tail in a semicircle, providing a toehold for the player to scramble atop the beast's back, hoisting himself up with ropes.
"I don't believe for a minute" that the beast is a direct human ancestor, Peter Andrews of the Natural History Museum in London said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
In our plan, none of the rubbish would enter the food chain of beast, bird, plant or man."
We all know that the 'travel writer' is not the same beast as the wretched compiler of tourist guidebooks, and we also know that the genre contains a menagerie of skills and interests.
"The comptroller is dealing with an inherently tougher beast," Mr. Ely concedes.
However, the trouble with 'Bluff King Hal' from the marketing point of view is that the moment you go beyond the level of jokes about Henry's six wives, he becomes a tricky beast to package, especially abroad.
This week, an editorial broadcast by radio station KW Continental, which had been closed under Noriega, declared, "The beast must not escape" _ a reference to Noriega's refuge inside the Vatican embassy.
This makes it a very different beast from general insurance, because there is no 'risk' involved as to the final pay-out - the underwriters know you are going to die, and that some time sooner or later they will have to pay out.
Go there very late, however, and - like some great submarine beast emerging into emptiness and silence - history rises to the surface.
A sharp strike, a brief tussle, and the thrashing beast was on the bank. A boot was then jammed on its neck while the hook was removed, and into the bucket it went. It took us a while to master this new art.
'You give the thing a kick and this surly beast turns round and says 'what's going on?',' Davies says. One reason business has been slow to invest has been the volatility of the British economy compared with other countries.
Sadly this Dracula does not get beyond the elementary beast within.
At a February 1983 concert, Hungarian punk bands dedicated a song to deceased Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, singing: "The schemer has died, the beast has died, the dictator can now become an idol."
The beast will be virtually extinct within 50 years at the present rate of killings, according to the World Conservation Union and the World Wide Fund For Nature, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund.
Actor Paul Sorvino is turning again to singing, but the acclaimed opera singer says he knows better than to try to soothe the savage beast of gamblers with an aria.
So show the nation the moral beast you are and come through these doors and arrest her," Sharpton said.
In the capital, Aquino appealed for unity following Saturday's brief coup attempt, which a spokesman termed the "convulsions of a dying beast."
Newsday described it as an ungainly beast which 'only a mother could love'. That probably says more about American conservatism than the inherent merits of Maw's music, which is scarcely calculated to appeal to minimalists.
Ron Perlman, who plays the beast Vincent on television's "Beauty and the Beast," says he has been amazed to find himself a sex symbol because of the role.
Britain's first public auction of llamas did little for the long-eyelashed beast of burden's new status as a fashionable pet.
If not literally then at least figuratively, the carrot has replaced the stick as the preferred method of stimulating forward progress in a beast not widely admired for his cooperative ways.
Then the beast bolted for freedom.

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