brute的意思|brute的解释-里氏词典

brute [bru:t]

n. 畜生, 残忍或好色之人

a. 残忍的, 无理性的, 畜生的

That dog is a dangerous brute; it bites people.
那条狗是危险的畜牲，它咬人。
You've forgotten my birthday again, you brute!
你真没良心, 又把我的生日忘了!
That dog looks a real brute.
那条狗真像一只野兽.

brute

[ noun ]

a cruelly rapacious person

<noun.person>

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

<noun.tops>

[ adj ]

resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

<adj.all>

beastly desires

a bestial nature

brute force

a dull and brutish man

bestial treatment of prisoners

Brute \Brute\, a. [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough,
rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp.
bruto.]
1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious;
without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the
brute powers of nature.

2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute
beast; the brute creation.

A creature . . . not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason. --Milton.

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.
Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless;
as, brute violence. --Macaulay.

The influence of capital and mere brute labor.
--Playfair.

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental;
coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. --Sir W.
Scott.

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

{brute force}, The application of predominantly physical
effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with
less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively,
repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or
simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem
achieving the same goal with less effort; -- as, the first
prime numbers were discovered by the brute force
repetition of the {Sieve of Eratosthenes}.
[PJC]

Brute \Brute\, n.
1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human;
esp. a quadruped; a beast.

Brutes may be considered as either a["e]rial,
terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. --Locke.

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as
unfeeling or coarse person.

An ill-natured brute of a husband. --Franklin.

Syn: See {Beast}.

Brute \Brute\, v. t. [For bruit.]
To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

Even so, Apple, under Mr. Jobs, tried to use brute technology to change the ways people used computers.
With unflinching intelligence and perception, Mr. Malle bore into his subject: How Lucien, a rough farm boy, became a vicious brute, a Nazi collaborator simply because the local resistance refused to hire him.
Sundered families; father-son showdowns in jail; battling barristers (Emma Thompson shining through an armful of briefs); and a supporting cast pitting brutal Irish ideologues against brute British pragmatists.
In South Carolina, its brute energy created incongruous scenes: boats blown a half-mile inland, roofs sheared off, trees twisted into spaghetti-like heaps.
The brute Hunding is not felled by Wotan's scathing gaze, but scrambles off unharmed.
His Grimes is neither brute nor visionary: he is lonely, unpredictable, heroically courageous.
But given the kind of brute Saddam is, he probably would far rather lose civilians than MiG-29s.
That promise sounds shaky now that those same leaders have fallen back on Marxist dogma and brute force to crush their nation's democracy movement.
The archbishop of San Salvador on Sunday denounced the "cold blooded" assassination of the attorney general but pleaded against a reaction of brute force and witch hunts.
In his closing arguments, Graysen characterized Kramer as a threatening brute.
Miss Gabor's defense hinged on the contention that Kramer was a tempermental brute who had a history of manhandling suspects.
In a third, so-called "brute force" approach, the gradient coil itself remains the same but is "driven" by a more powerful battery of amplifiers than in existing MRI machines.
Exciting as this was conceptually, technically the infant electronic drum kit was "a brute."
They were trying to out-calculate the brute.
Activists have complained that police used brute force to break up some of the peaceful marches, and authorities have recently promised to look into those allegations.
And Bobby D.'s turn as Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" had little on Bugs' showdown with boxing brute The Crusher.
For most of this century, a vast war of ideas has been waged between the invisible hand of the marketplace and the brute force of socialist central planning.
Even as portables are stealing away desktop PC sales because of miniaturization, workstations are cutting into PC sales because they offer brute power and solid, if somewhat unimaginative, networking.

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