crueller

英 [ˈkrʊələ]

美 [ˈkruələr]

adj.  残酷的; 冷酷的; 残忍的; 残暴的; 引起痛苦的
cruel的比较级

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

• One of the crueller ironies of George W. Bush's second term is that the president has listened to his critics.
  乔治•布什（GeorgeW.Bush）第二个总统任期的最大讽刺之一是，他听取了批评者的建议。
• Nothing's crueller than a woman.
  没有什么比女人更残忍的。
• I hope my films can help in any small way to help your imagination become at least a little bit crueller.
  我希望我的电影能帮助你们把你们的想象变得更残忍那么一点点。
• Of course, 2012 has been far crueller to Facebook.
  显然，2012年对Facebook就要残酷得多。
• I think that what it is, is not that the world has become crueller, it's just that we hold our children back from a very early age.
  我觉得问题并不是世界变得越来越残酷，而是我们从小就把孩子呵护得太紧。
• As long as it stays in the realm of imagination, the crueller the better-that's healthy.
  只要是在想象之中，越残忍越好，这是健康的。
• She believed the alternative was crueller: watching him die slowly of hunger and thirst as his life-support mechanism was switched off-assuming that this had been allowed by the high court.
  她之所以这样做是因为坚信其他抉择更加残忍：因为所有维持生命的机制都被切断，她只能眼睁睁地看着他慢慢死于饥渴&她假定这些都获得了高等法院的允许。