brute

英 [bruːt] 美[brut]

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近义词devil swine demon boor Carl dolt rustic lout clod oaf churl

反义词

adj. 残忍的；无理性的
n. 畜生；残暴的人

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中文词源

brute 野蛮的

来自词根bar, 重，见barometer, 气压计，gravity, 重力。此处词义由重到呆滞，愚蠢，野兽，最后指野兽般的，野蛮的。

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复数: brutes;

英文词源

brute: brute: [15] The primordial meaning of brute appears to be ‘heavy’. It comes from Latin brūtus ‘heavy’, and it has been speculated that it is related to Latin grāvis ‘heavy’ (from which English gets grave, gravity, and grieve). In Latin the sense ‘heavy’ had already progressed to ‘stupid’, and it later developed to ‘of the lower animals’. It was with this meaning that the word reached English via French. Connotations of ‘cruelty’ do not begin to appear until the 17th century. Brut meaning ‘very dry’ in relation to champagne is a late 19th-century borrowing of the French adjectival form brut, literally ‘rough’.
brute (adj.): early 15c., "of or belonging to animals," from Middle French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid," an Oscan word, from PIE root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals." Used of human beings from 1530s.
brute (n.): 1610s, from brute (adj.).

双语例句

1. The burly brute swaggered forward, towering over me, and shouted.: 五大三粗的恶汉趾高气扬地走过来，居高临下地对我咆哮着。

2. Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.: 拳击考验的是技能和技术，不是蛮力。

3. Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.: 卡斯特是个白痴，是个残暴的家伙，他罪有应得。

4. He was a great brawny brute of a man.: 他是个魁梧壮实、粗野的人。

5. His father was a drunken brute.: 他父亲是个蛮横的醉鬼。

英英释意

1. a cruelly rapacious person

2. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

实用场景例句

His father was a drunken brute.: 他父亲是个蛮横的醉鬼。

You've forgotten my birthday again, you brute!: 你又忘了我的生日了，你这个没良心的！

brute force/strength: 暴力；蛮劲

the brute facts of inequality: 赤裸裸的不平等事实

Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.: 卡斯特是个白痴，是个残暴的家伙，他罪有应得。

...a drunken brute.: 野蛮的醉鬼

He used brute force to take control...: 他靠暴力获得了统治权。

Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.: 拳击考验的是技能和技术，不是蛮力。

...brute loyalty to the herd.: 对群落的一种本能的忠诚

...brute historical fact.: 基本的历史事实

You are a brute to keep it from me.: 你把这件事瞒着我,真可恶.

She defied the brute force.: 她不畏强暴.

The security of encryption algorithms depends heavily on computational infeasibility of brute force attack.: 加密算法的安全性在很大程度上取决于暴力破解的不可行性.

The horse broke its leg, the poor brute.: 那匹马跌断了腿, 可怜的马.

This misshapen ogrelike brute has taut flesh with a claylike texture.: 这只畸形的食人魔状怪物有着粘土般构成的紧崩肉体.

These days victory is won not by brute force but by knowledge.: 最近的胜利都不是因为暴力,而是信息.

He is an unfeeling brute.: 他是个无情的畜生.

He is a brute to his children.: 他虐待子女.

When they saw him repulse society, they said, " He is a brute. ": 现在,他谢绝社交, 大家说: “ 那是个莽汉. ”

Actually man is in transit between brute and God.: 其实,人应该说是禽兽向上帝的过渡.

The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.: 侵略军简直象一群野兽.

And the progress is quite good, I mean, partly by brute force.: 而且进步相当好, 我方法, 部分藉着暴力.

Am I a murdering brute? Do I look it?: 难道我是一个杀人不眨眼的匪徒? 我象这号人吗 ?

Man has struggled long against the brute forces of nature.: 长期以来,人类一直在同无情的自然力作斗争.

The bear was a great brute.: 熊是一种大型野兽.

This would be impossible if we used brute force to block the attack.: 我们用蛮力对抗进攻,就不可能成功.

When that killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line.: 当这种东西被杀死的时候,人面兽心的人将济济一堂, 弹冠相庆.

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