bestial

英 [ˈbestiəl]

美 [ˈbestʃəl]

adj.  凶残的; 野兽的; 野兽般的; 兽性的

GRE

BNC.33073 / COCA.29608

牛津词典

adj.

• 凶残的；野兽的；野兽般的；兽性的
  cruel and disgusting; of or like a beast
  1. bestial acts/cruelty/noises
     毫无人性的行为 / 残忍；野兽般的喧闹声

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 兽性的；残忍的；令人厌恶的
  If you describe behaviour or a situation asbestial, you mean that it is very unpleasant or disgusting.
  1. A statement on Amman Radio spoke of bestial aggression and a horrible massacre.
     安曼广播电台播放的一则声明提到了野蛮的侵略和骇人的大屠杀。
  2. ...the bestial conditions into which the city has sunk.
     这个城市已变得兽欲横流

英英释义

adj

• resembling a beast
  1. beastly desires
  2. a bestial nature
  3. brute force
  4. a dull and brutish man
  5. bestial treatment of prisoners
  Synonym:beastlybrute(a)brutishbrutal

双语例句

• Even dogs and wolves, to judge at least by their nocturnal howlings, seem to feel in some dim bestial fashion a kind of numinous emotion about the full moon.
  甚至狗和狼，至少通过他们夜晚的嚎叫来判断，在月圆之夜它们似乎也会沉浸在一种超自然的情感中。
• To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature," human "might be the greater insult.
  要侮辱某个人我们会叫他“野兽”。因为故意的残忍和天性，叫他“人类”可能是更大的侮辱。
• What the diplomats and corporate chieftains in their bestial stupor can never understand is this paradox of history: With triumph, the aggressors seal their defeat;
  外交官与企业家在他们的醉生梦死之中，永远都不可能明白这个历史的悖论：随着侵略者的胜利，他们的失败将会被尘封；
• I saw a creature, naked, bestial.
  我看见一个人，赤裸裸，如野兽。
• The Roman gladiatorial contests were bestial amusements.
  罗马角斗是野蛮的娱乐。
• Lord Snow, what is this bestial creature doing on our side of the Wall?
  雪诺大人，这个野蛮的东西跑到长城这边来干什么？
• Of or resembling a beast; bestial.
  兽的，似兽的；下流的。
• Then the article goes on to speak of the truly indescribable and bestial conditions of life in the swollen London slums.
  文章接着谈到不断膨胀中的伦敦贫民窟无限悲惨的非人生活情况。
• You have crucified her on the cross of avaricious temperament and bestial living.
  你令她在贪婪的秉性与野蛮的生存所致的十字架上受难。
• Beneath its purple pall, the face painted on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden, and unclean.
  在这块紫色的棺衣下，画布上的脸变得毫无人性、污秽、不洁。