记忆方法
词源词缀:来自crude,粗糙的。
双解例句
小知识
Someone or something that inflicts pain or causes suffering can be described as cruel. It would be cruel of you to offer chocolate to someone on a diet.
High school can be cruel sometimes: cruel teachers, who seem to organize to all pile on the papers and tests for the same day; cruel students, who are mean to each other; and even cruel cafeteria workers, who create disgusting concoctions out of mystery meat. Through its Latin ancestors — crudelis “rude and unfeeling” and crudus “raw or rude” — cruel is related to the English word crude, meaning rude or not fully formed.
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
cruel:一般用词,指行动或态度的残忍。
brutal:指极端的残忍,强调无情或缺乏同情心,含不择手段的意味。
inhuman:着重缺乏同情心、仁爱等人类特有的良好的品质。
savage:指缺乏文明人应有的教养,尤指在动怒或冲动时表现出的粗野蛮横,含野蛮意味。
barbarous:专指只有原始或未开化的人才会有的残忍行为。
fierce:指天性凶恶,令人害怕。
ruthless与cruel同义。强调为达到目的,对别人的痛苦毫无怜悯之心。
词根词缀
词根: cru
1. 表示”粗野,残酷”; 2. =cross,表示”十字形,交叉”
adj.
cruel 残酷的, 悲惨的, 使痛苦的cru粗野,残酷+el→adj.残酷的, 悲惨的, 使痛苦的
n.
cruelty 残忍, 残酷cruel残酷的+ty表名词→n.残忍, 残酷
cruise 乘船巡游cru十字形,交叉+ise表名词→n.乘船巡游
cruiser 巡洋舰;有船舱的游艇cruise[v.巡航;以节省燃料的速度前进]+er表名词→n.巡洋舰;有船舱的游艇
同义词辨析
这些形容词都有”残忍的,野蛮的”之意。
同义词
反义词
kind / merciful / pitiful / humane / benevolent / beneficent / friendly / thoughtful / kindhearted