cruel
/ˈkɹuːəl/ 形容词 B1中文： 残忍、残酷、狠心
- Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. · The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
- Harsh; severe. · We're certainly having quite a cruel winter this year.
- Cool; awesome; neat.
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It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them--to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
“Oh, Marilla, how can you be so cruel?” sobbed Anne.
“You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza, that it is cruel to deny me the happiness of seeing you; and though this gentleman dislikes the amusement in general, he can have no objection, I am sure, to oblige us for one half hour.”
Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and by the middle of June Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears,--an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope, that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
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