barbarous

英 [ˈbɑːbərəs]

美 [ˈbɑːrbərəs]

adj. 残酷的; 骇人听闻的; 缺乏教养的; 粗野的

GRE TEM4 TEM8

BNC.20500 / COCA.24373

牛津词典

adj.

残酷的；骇人听闻的
extremely cruel and shocking
1. the barbarous treatment of these prisoners of war
  对这些战俘的残酷待遇
缺乏教养的；粗野的
showing a lack of education and good manners

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 粗野的；未开化的；野蛮的
If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
1. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
  他认为惠特曼的诗歌太粗俗。
ADJ-GRADED 残暴的；极其残忍的；凶残的
If you describe something asbarbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel.
1. ...a barbarous attack.
  凶残的进攻

英英释义

adj

primitive in customs and culture
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
1. a barbarous crime
2. brutal beatings
3. cruel tortures
4. Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
5. a savage slap
6. vicious kicks
Synonym:brutalcruelfellroughshodsavagevicious

双语例句

Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people.
你知道阿拉伯人是一只野蛮民族。
No government anywhere subjects its own people to such a barbarous regime of fear, repression and hunger.
没有任何地方的政府会将本国人民压制在这种充满恐惧、压抑和饥饿的野蛮体制中。
It's likely to be the most barbarous war that we have ever known.
这将会是一场我们所知道的最残忍的战争。
The language in which the hag addressed them was a strange and barbarous Latin.
那个母夜叉对他们说话时所用的语言是一种古怪而不规范的拉丁语。
It seems a more civilized alternative to our present barbarous procedure.
这与我们目前野蛮的做法相比似乎是较为文明的变通。
The people of these places are so barbarous that they still eat human flesh.
这些地方的人民都是如此的野蛮，他们依旧是吃人肉的。
How can they forgive such barbarous behaviour?
他们如何能宽恕这样野蛮的行为？
It is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms.
武力不过是主权扩张的一种愚蠢而野蛮的方式。
It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
当埃德蒙痛苦的时候自己却心头高兴是残忍的。
This rage is engendered by the reactionary and barbarous character of Japan's war& "there is no escape from fate", and hence an absolute hostility has crystallized.
这是根据敌人战争的退步性野蛮性而来的，在劫难逃，于是形成了绝对的敌对。