cruelties

英 [ˈkru(ː)əltiz]

美 [ˈkrultiz]

n.  (尤指蓄意的)残酷，残忍，残暴; 残暴的行为; 不公; 虐待
cruelty的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 残暴;残忍;残酷
  Crueltyis behaviour that deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
  1. Britain had laws against cruelty to animals but none to protect children...
     英国有禁止虐待动物的法律，但却没有保护儿童的法律。
  2. He had been unable to escape the cruelties of war.
     他没能逃脱战争的残酷。

双语例句

• They suffered beatings and other cruelties.
  他们挨打并受到其他残酷折磨。
• Jim Callaghan connotes the "winter of discontent": such are the simplifications and cruelties of national memory.
  这些都说明了民族记忆的简单化和残酷。
• The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties.
  低等的生灵在你残酷的行为下呻吟着。
• He had been unable to escape the cruelties of war.
  他没能逃脱战争的残酷。
• Her love for learning is juxtaposed with the cruelties of the teachers and other children.
  她爱学习是并列的残酷的教师和其他儿童。
• Are housed within their cruelties.
  生活在他们的喜怒无常中。
• Let men who delight in the cruelties of war remember that their day is coming.
  让那些喜爱战争残酷的人记得他们的日子已经临近了。
• Beatings and other cruelties were dealt out to those who had been captured.
  那些被俘的人遭毒打并受到其他非人道待遇。