barbarity

英 [bɑːˈbærəti]

美 [bɑːrˈbærəti]

n.  暴行; 残忍

复数：barbarities　

BNC.33107 / COCA.28784

牛津词典

noun

• 暴行；残忍
  behaviour that deliberately causes extreme pain or suffering to others

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 残忍的行为；暴行
  If you refer to someone's behaviour asbarbarity, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
  1. Rebellions were put down with appalling barbarity.
     叛变被残酷地镇压了下去。
  2. ...the barbarity of war.
     战事的残酷

英英释义

noun

• a brutal barbarous savage act
  Synonym:brutalitybarbarismsavagery
• the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
  Synonym:atrocityatrociousnessbarbarousnessheinousness

双语例句

• While meeting the increasing desires of humankind, war and technology revealed the conflict between humanity and barbarity of human nature.
  战争与科技在满足了人类膨胀的欲望的同时，又揭露了人类本性中的人性与兽性的对立。
• Social engineering, a social process in which people practice changing the world, adjusting social relations and controlling social movement, is the actual undertaker of the production and vicissitude of social structure and the "the main battlefield" in which man moves from barbarity towards civilization.
  社会工程是人们改造社会世界，调整社会关系、控制社会运行的社会实践过程，是社会结构生成与变迁的实际承担者，是人类从野蛮走向文明的主战场。
• "Terrorist violence targeted against the Israelis once again claimed innocent people's lives," he said. Typical Cases of Humanity and Barbarity: Gandhiism and International Terrorism
  他表示：「针对以色列人的恐怖暴力再度夺走无辜人命。」人性与兽性的典型&甘地非暴力主义与国际恐怖主义之比较
• Synchronically, human nature is the concrete unity of barbarity and humanity;
  从共时性上看，人的本质是兽性与人性具体的统一；
• Throughout the history of civilization, no one has ever seen human nature at such a peak of cruelty and barbarity.
  纵观人类文明史，其手段之残忍、残酷、灭绝人性实属罕见！
• From the perspective of historical materialism, the development of human civilization promoted by the change of production mode for materials goods remains an advancing dialectical process, from the low level to the high level, from simplicity to complexity, from barbarity to civilization.
  人类文明的发展过程是由物质资料生产方式的变迁来推动其自身从低级到高级、从简单到复杂、从野蛮到文明的前进上升的辩证发展运动。
• Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense of all others.
  对某个人的爱是一种野蛮行为，因为实践它要以其他所有人为代价。
• Rebellions were put down with appalling barbarity.
  叛变被残酷地镇压了下去。
• What happened in Fallujah was an act of barbarity.
  发生在费卢杰的是野蛮行为。
• This may be the most barbarity scene in the world.
  这也许是丛林中最残忍的场景了。