brutes n. 野兽;人面兽心的人;粗鲁的人(brute的复数)
v. 磨削;粗加工(brute的三单形式)
- This proverb says that henpecked husbands are the real men among us, while wife-beaters are mere brutes.
从字面上来讲,这话是指怕太太的人是「大丈夫」,打太太的人就是「畜牲」。 - Indivisible sounds are uttered by the brutes also, but no one of these is a Letter in our sense of the term.
动物也发出不可分割的声音,但他们所发出的声音没有一个是在我们所说的字母这一意义上的。 - Two thugs tried to pick a fight with the youth, but Obi-Wan Kenobi intervened, dispatching the brutes with a quick swing of his lightsaber.
在两个恶棍试图向路克挑臖的当下,欧比旺适时地介入调停,恶棍也在当场在欧比旺光剑的快速挥舞之下身首异处。