ferocious的意思|ferocious的解释-里氏词典

ferocious [fә'rәuʃәs]

a. 残忍的, 凶猛的, 可怕的

A person regarded as ferocious or violent.
被认为是残酷和凶猛的人
The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.
猛烈的狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
The state or quality of being ferocious; fierceness.
凶恶，残忍凶恶的状态或特点；凶猛

ferocious

[ adj ]
marked by extreme and violent energy
<adj.all>
a ferocious beatingfierce fighting
a furious battle

Ferocious \Fe*ro"cious\, a. [L. ferox, -ocis, fierce: cf. F.
f['e]roce. See {Ferocity}.]
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous;
rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. --Lowth.

Syn: {Ferocious}, {Fierce}, {Savage}, {Barbarous}.

Usage: When these words are applied to human feelings or
conduct, ferocious describes the disposition; fierce,
the haste and violence of an act; barbarous, the
coarseness and brutality by which it was marked;
savage, the cruel and unfeeling spirit which it
showed. A man is ferocious in his temper, fierce in
his actions, barbarous in the manner of carrying out
his purposes, savage in the spirit and feelings
expressed in his words or deeds. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ly},
adv. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ness}, n.

When outlawed in 1835, this pastime gave way to dog fighting, in which the pit bull proved to be a ferocious competitor.
Bentley further embellishes his ferocious image with a blond mustache the ends of which wend to his jawline.
Spiegel, in the Feb. 12 article entitled "Fear of Rent Sharks," said a West German homeowner had armed himself with a special spray to fend off his East German tenant's ferocious dog.
The "Scottish Castle" is a ferocious little picture, nearly all black, of a castle perched on a cliff above a thundering sea.
It was the first time the two factions engaged in such ferocious fighting in Baalbek, the largest Shiite urban center in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley 38 miles east of Beirut.
In Northern California, residents and authorities began to clean up in the wake of the ferocious north winds that damaged boats and airplanes, downed power lines and trees and fanned dozens of brush fires.
Even in a depressed market savaged by a ferocious fares war, America contributed Pounds 119m of BA's Pounds 344m operating profits for the year ended March 1992.
Originally imported from the US to be farmed for the fur trade, they have returned to the wild, colonised most of the country, and are now reputed to be our most ferocious mammal.
The Lebanese Christians this summer have been engaged in ferocious artillery duels with Syrian forces and their Moslem allies in Lebanon.
"It's a ferocious weather market," said trader Victor Lespinasse with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
In both places, the soldiers made ferocious and indiscriminate use of their weapons.
In an orgy of cost-cutting inspired by ferocious global competition, American corporations have unilaterally repealed the unwritten law that once bound them to their managers, and have been jettisoning them in carload lots.
The second, he said, was to denounce "the unusual and ferocious attack" on demonstrators by riot police at the first.
The 48 boys and girls at Laurel Springs Camp were only four days into their two-week stay when ferocious brush fires sweeping through the mountains of Santa Barbara forced their evacuation.
Mackinnon tracks these two ferocious leopards to their lairs and from time to time catches them changing their spots. Both suffered identity crises in their youth.
Among the ones that came and went, the incisive Nilsson/Solti performance (revived on Decca CDs) held its ground - too unremitting and ferocious to brook any argument, but just for that reason not exactly definitive.
Rottweilers are very large, very ferocious dogs, and one might imagine from recent headlines that they have Britain under siege.
On Sunday, the Denver Broncos from the pass-dominated AFC couldn't run on the Jersey Giants' ferocious defense, and they couldn't hide from the consequences of that failure.
The group said it will "take revenge against all those who took part in strong and ferocious campaigns against Islam."
'Gatt is the picket tying down the European lamb and making it prey to the voracity of ever more ferocious world competition.'
Arafat's men dislodged Mousa's fighters from the camps soon after the power struggle flared in May. But the Syrian-backed Fatah-Uprising faction regrouped and counter-attacked in ferocious bombardments of the camps from positions in the mountains.
The Kramdens may not bark, but they certainly bare their teeth in some fairly ferocious exchanges.
The reason is a sustained attack by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the unity concept, and a ferocious counterblast from her predecessor, Edward Heath.
But the Civil War, the great continental divide in American history, transformed them into ferocious rivals for the hearts of Americans, a people themselves saddened and divided by what they were doing to each other and to themselves.
This portends a ferocious fight for customers and a subsequent industry shakeout.
In the meantime there is a ferocious squeeze on the funds available for health, education and rural development. The last point is crucial to building a modern economy.
Mr. Buchanan's a delight however ferocious his views.
Had they a hope among the ferocious cannibals?
"Your incredible Kung Fu training will help you as you match wits with knife throwers, ferocious bulldogs and the gang's evil leader."
But Red's eyebrows are still knitted in ferocious concentration, and the fight restarts.

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