savagery

英 [ˈsævɪdʒri]

美 [ˈsævɪdʒri]

n.  残暴行为

TEM8

BNC.15393 / COCA.18496

牛津词典

noun

• 残暴行为
  behaviour that is very cruel and violent
  1. The police were shocked by the savagery of the attacks.
     警察对这些惨无人道的袭击感到震惊。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 凶恶行为;残暴行径;兽性
  Savageryis extremely cruel and violent behaviour.
  1. ...the sheer savagery of war.
     战争的残酷无情

英英释义

noun

• a brutal barbarous savage act
  Synonym:brutalitybarbaritybarbarism
• the trait of extreme cruelty
  Synonym:ferociousnessbrutalityviciousness
• the property of being untamed and ferocious
  1. the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters
  2. a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums
  Synonym:savageness

双语例句

• The bow and arrow was for savagery what the iron sword was for barbarism and fire-arms for civilization& the decisive weapon.
  弓箭对于蒙昧时代，正如铁剑对于野蛮时代和火器对于文明时代一样，乃是决定性的武器。
• Yet his light Ulster lilt, as he sips water in his offices in Piccadilly, makes it hard to imagine him operating with a merciless savagery, in the words of one critic.
  不过，当他在位于伦敦皮卡迪利大街的办公室里一边喝水，一边哼着轻快的阿尔斯特曲调，人们将很难想象他无情与野蛮的管理（某位批评人士的话）。
• We will meet it with a savagery of our own.
  我们就用我们自己的兽性去对付。
• Such perfidy and pride, envy and ambition, homicide and murder, cruelty and savagery, lawlessness and lust;
  这般背叛与骄傲、忌妒与野心、屠戮与谋杀、残忍与野蛮、违法与贪婪；
• This place is like an alleyway in hell; with so much naked savagery and violence, it gives us a concentrated glimpse of all the sicknesses in Chinese society.
  这是一个地狱般的胡同；那么多让人简直不敢相信的那种赤裸裸的野蛮，那种残暴。我觉得这个现象是中国社会病的一个集中反映。
• Savagery was the formative period of the human race.
  蒙昧阶段是人类的形成阶段。
• It was an act of disgrace and savagery.
  这是耻辱和野性的表现。
• His reputation for savagery and belligerence is nothing but a myth.
  它的野蛮好斗的名声纯系神话。
• The uneon trolled savagery of modern war.
  现代战争不受抑制的野蛮行径。
• Can't let savagery infect us.
  不能让那些野蛮人影响我们。