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brutal ['bru:tәl]

a. 残忍的, 野蛮的, 不讲理的

Many a rich businessman reached the top by trampling on others in the most brutal way.
许多富商靠极其残酷地践踏别人而爬了上去。
NATO's invasion of this independent country is a brutal violation of human rights.
北约对这个独立的国家的侵略是对人权的野蛮侵犯。
Children were rent from their mothers' arms by the brutal soldiers.
凶残的士兵把孩子们从母亲的怀抱中夺走了。

brutal

[ adj ]

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

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a barbarous crime

brutal beatings

cruel tortures

Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks

a savage slap

vicious kicks

harsh

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the brutal summer sun

a brutal winter

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

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beastly desires

a bestial nature

brute force

a dull and brutish man

bestial treatment of prisoners

disagreeably direct and precise

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he spoke with brutal honesty

Brutal \Bru"tal\, a. [Cf. F. brutal. See {Brute}, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. ``Above
the rest of brutal kind.'' --Milton.

2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling;
merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. ``Brutal
intemperance.'' --Macaulay.

Inside, signs of brutal disruption are all too evident.
There was no independent confirmation and no comment by Baghdad, which has been fighting a brutal mountain war against the Kurdish guerrillas, who seek an independent homeland.
Zimbabwe Newspapers Ltd., owners of The Chronicle and all Zimbabwe's other daily and Sunday newspapers, condemned what it called brutal, unprovoked and premeditated attacks.
The astonishing story of what happened to Mr. Olson, a former mid-level Justice Department official, shows the brutal excesses of the most powerful branch.
Last month, Avril said he planned to close the barracks of the 700-man Dessalines Battalion, the most brutal unit in Haiti's 7,000-member army.
And then down the road, we have enormous commonality of interest with China, but it will not be the same under a brutal and repressive regime.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Leading Haitians on Tuesday welcomed the announcement that people linked to a brutal dictatorship were barred from the presidential race.
Hurling high Bs, our Turandot described how the brutal murder of an ancestor thousands of years ago made her hate all men.
West Germany summoned the Albanian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to protest "the brutal behavior" of Albanian authorities.
Today, as Lady Thatcher can attest, dismissals are free, but each one creates an enemy on the backbenches. All British prime ministers must at one time or another have longed for the brutal simplicity of the American method.
O'Connor, perhaps informed by his long association with the theatre, has the poet thumping across the stage as a maudlin penitent, haunted by the Tudors' brutal persecution of Catholicism, tormented by guilt.
Jackson also talks in sometimes brutal terms of the price that was paid in the civil rights movement, reading down the list of those who were killed in the fight.
The memory of that brutal chapter still haunts the country's leaders who are anxious to ensure that the next transfer of power is peaceful.
"They treated the Japanese a whole lot better than my people, although it was still a brutal thing to do," he said. "They trucked them to their new houses, built fences, and fed them.
Mr. Ongpin's suicide, on Dec. 7, was the brutal conclusion to his hopes.
We can jump right on things because all I need is one signature." Taiwan's new attitude was the result of some brutal realities.
It is a disgraceful performance; it is condemned by the United States of America and _ however, we must not let this brutal killing stand in the way of trying to bring peace to this troubled corner of the world.
Similarly brutal punishments have been decreed for common criminals in what recent visitors to Iraq say has becoming a dangerously lawless place.
The Military Prosecutor's Office on Thursday charged four aides of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu with genocide for their brutal role in suppressing a popular uprising last December, the state news agency reported.
Officials said the measures would include the reinstatement of thousands of illegally purged government officials and financial compensation for victims of the brutal military suppression of a 1980 civil uprising.
"At this stage things were quite brutal," he said.
He didn't propose any detailed aid plans for the two nations, but he called the Philippines a "heroic democracy ravaged by communist-led insurrection" and Afghanistan "a victim of brutal aggression."
The Cambodians fled brutal regimes, food shortages and a guerrilla war in their homeland.
Said Moynihan: "We live in a brutal capitalist system and if you leave New York you die." Stamford is undertaking its own campaign.
Congressional opponents have strongly criticized the moves, saying Bush was "kowtowing" to the aging leaders of a brutal regime and abandoning those who are pressing for democratic reform.
As part of its efforts to impart revolutionary "justice" among the people, the Shining Path has administered brutal reprisals against those peasants who do not fit its "new-man" profile.
The brutal conquest of Mexico and the subsequent annihilation (through disease) of most of the indigenous population, could hardly be described as a 'meeting'.
The plight of Romania's estimated 100,000 to 130,000 orphans has been a focus of international concern since the fall of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu revealed the effects of the government's brutal policies.
One factor characteristic of the mentally ill is the Tiing Moong, or "dummy" personality, a state of psychological withdrawal fashioned by refugees from the brutal Pol Pot regime in order to survive.
"I think we're underestimating how brutal Hussein could end up being," he says.

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