brute

• adj. 残忍的；无理性的
• n. 畜生；残暴的人

来自词根bar, 重，见barometer, 气压计，gravity, 重力。此处词义由重到呆滞，愚蠢，野兽，最后指野兽般的，野蛮的。

1. a cruelly rapacious person

2. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

brute

brute: [15] The primordial meaning of brute appears to be ‘heavy’. It comes from Latin brūtus ‘heavy’, and it has been speculated that it is related to Latin grāvis ‘heavy’ (from which English gets grave, gravity, and grieve). In Latin the sense ‘heavy’ had already progressed to ‘stupid’, and it later developed to ‘of the lower animals’. It was with this meaning that the word reached English via French. Connotations of ‘cruelty’ do not begin to appear until the 17th century. Brut meaning ‘very dry’ in relation to champagne is a late 19th-century borrowing of the French adjectival form brut, literally ‘rough’.

brute (adj.)

early 15c., "of or belonging to animals," from Middle French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid," an Oscan word, from PIE root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals." Used of human beings from 1530s.

brute (n.)

1610s, from brute (adj.).

animal, beast, creature, brute, cattle creature ：通常指生物或动物，与非生动相对。指人时，则含怜悯或轻蔑的意味。 brute ：特指野兽。用于人时，突出其野蛮或残忍。 cattle ：指大牲畜，尤其指牛。

这些名词均含"动物"之意。

animal：普通用词，指区别于植物和矿物而言的动物的总称。

beast：指有别于爬行动物、昆虫等的较大的四脚兽类或牛、马等牲畜。

His father was a drunken brute.

他父亲是个蛮横的醉鬼。

牛津词典

You've forgotten my birthday again, you brute!

你又忘了我的生日了，你这个没良心的！

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brute force/strength

暴力；蛮劲

牛津词典

the brute facts of inequality

赤裸裸的不平等事实

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Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.

卡斯特是个白痴，是个残暴的家伙，他罪有应得。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a drunken brute.

野蛮的醉鬼

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He used brute force to take control...

他靠暴力获得了统治权。

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Boxing is a test of skill and technique, rather than brute strength.

拳击考验的是技能和技术，不是蛮力。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...brute loyalty to the herd.

对群落的一种本能的忠诚

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...brute historical fact.

基本的历史事实

柯林斯高阶英语词典

You are a brute to keep it from me.

你把这件事瞒着我,真可恶.

辞典例句

She defied the brute force.

她不畏强暴.

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The security of encryption algorithms depends heavily on computational infeasibility of brute force attack.

加密算法的安全性在很大程度上取决于暴力破解的不可行性.

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The horse broke its leg, the poor brute.

那匹马跌断了腿, 可怜的马.

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This misshapen ogrelike brute has taut flesh with a claylike texture.

这只畸形的食人魔状怪物有着粘土般构成的紧崩肉体.

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These days victory is won not by brute force but by knowledge.

最近的胜利都不是因为暴力,而是信息.

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He is an unfeeling brute.

他是个无情的畜生.

《简明英汉词典》

He is a brute to his children.

他虐待子女.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

When they saw him repulse society, they said, " He is a brute. "

现在,他谢绝社交, 大家说: “ 那是个莽汉. ”

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Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

其实,人应该说是禽兽向上帝的过渡.

辞典例句

The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.

侵略军简直象一群野兽.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

And the progress is quite good, I mean, partly by brute force.

而且进步相当好, 我方法, 部分藉着暴力.

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Am I a murdering brute? Do I look it?

难道我是一个杀人不眨眼的匪徒? 我象这号人 吗 ?

辞典例句

Man has struggled long against the brute forces of nature.

长期以来,人类一直在同无情的自然力作斗争.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The bear was a great brute.

熊是一种大型野兽.

《简明英汉词典》

This would be impossible if we used brute force to block the attack.

我们用蛮力对抗进攻,就不可能成功.

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When that killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line.

当这种东西被杀死的时候,人面兽心的人将济济一堂, 弹冠相庆.

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