barbarous

英 [ˈbɑːbərəs]

美 [ˈbɑːrbərəs]

adj.  残酷的; 骇人听闻的; 缺乏教养的; 粗野的

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BNC.20500 / COCA.24373

牛津词典

adj.

• 残酷的；骇人听闻的
  extremely cruel and shocking
  1. the barbarous treatment of these prisoners of war
     对这些战俘的残酷待遇
• 缺乏教养的；粗野的
  showing a lack of education and good manners

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 粗野的；未开化的；野蛮的
  If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
  1. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
     他认为惠特曼的诗歌太粗俗。
• ADJ-GRADED 残暴的；极其残忍的；凶残的
  If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
  1. ...a barbarous attack.
     凶残的进攻

英英释义

adj

• primitive in customs and culture
• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  1. a barbarous crime
  2. brutal beatings
  3. cruel tortures
  4. Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
  5. a savage slap
  6. vicious kicks
  Synonym:brutalcruelfellroughshodsavagevicious

双语例句

• They did away with this barbarous custom.
  他们摈弃了这种野蛮风俗。
• And I speak a barbarous tongue.
  我说一口没文化的语言。
• It is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms.
  武力不过是主权扩张的一种愚蠢而野蛮的方式。
• Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.
  跟你一样贪婪，野蛮跟残忍。
• How can they forgive such barbarous behaviour?
  他们如何能宽恕这样野蛮的行为？
• This barbarous enemy policy will be carried deeper into the interior of China.
  敌人的这一野蛮政策，还要施之于更深的内地。
• I want them to do away with this barbarous custom.
  我希望他们废除这种野蛮的习俗。
• They ridiculed as relics of a barbarous age the images and rituals of the Hindu religion.
  他们嘲笑印度宗教的偶像和典礼是一个野蛮时期的崩溃。
• The language in which the hag addressed them was a strange and barbarous Latin.
  那个母夜叉对他们说话时所用的语言是一种古怪而不规范的拉丁语。
• Everything looked primitive and barbarous, dirty, and odious.
  一切看来原始而野蛮，肮脏而令人厌恶。