cruellest

英 [ˈkrʊəlɪst]

美 [ˈkruəlɪst]

adj.  残酷的; 冷酷的; 残忍的; 残暴的; 引起痛苦的
cruel的最高级

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 crueler, cruelest


• ADJ-GRADED 残酷的;冷酷的;残忍的;残暴的
  Someone who iscrueldeliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
  1. Children can be so cruel...
     孩子有时可能会相当残忍。
  2. Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up?
     你不认为把动物关进笼里太残忍了吗？
• ADJ-GRADED (处境或事件)引起痛苦的，残酷的
  A situation or event that iscruelis very harsh and causes people distress.
  1. ...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope...
     在一个难以应付的残酷世界里拼命求生
  2. By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course.
     十分残酷而且极具讽刺意味的是，他的马在赛场的平地上摔倒了。

双语例句

• April is the cruellest month.
  四月是最残忍的季节。
• He seemed studiously to seek out all the tender spots in her consciousness so as to inflict on her the cruellest wounds possible.
  他仿佛极力挑剔她的各种弱点，尽量残酷地从精神上折磨她。
• But even in the cruellest heart there are some fears too terrible to laugh at.
  话虽这么说，但即便是在最残忍无情的人心里，也埋藏着可怕得难以一笑置之的恐惧。
• He is cruellest to those he loves most.
  他对他最爱的人最残忍。
• You are truly the cruellest Lord in the land, now how many times have I heard that.
  你是这个时间上最残酷的领主，这句话我已经听过无数次了。
• Human beings have always been cruellest to their own kind.
  人对其同类总是最残酷的。
• Being ostracized for having being raped is one of the cruellest consequences these victims face.
  因为被强奸而受到排斥是这些受害者面临的最残酷后果之一。
• Numerous times I lie in bed at night and imagine the cruellest torture. I imagine the most miserable ruining of that person's life.
  很多个夜晚我躺在床上，想象最残酷的折磨手段，我想象最不幸的经历。