brutal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 野蛮的, 残忍的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a powerful fellow, and tall, but his features were of a low, brutal type, which did not prepossess anyone in his favor.
-- With a coarse, red face, thick hands, and a broken nose, blind of an eye, and his lips stained with the pipe, Will Halley was a sadly brutal looking person.
-- No one would have complained if he had passed all his time in his cabin, but for the fact that the brutal captain was every day under the influence of gin or brandy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as if darkness had swooped down upon her life; she felt that these children of hers, that she was so proud of, were not merely most ordinary, but positively bad, ill-bred children, with coarse, brutal propensities--wicked children.
-- He felt that besides the blessed spiritual force controlling his soul, there was another, a brutal force, as powerful, or more powerful, which controlled his life, and that this force would not allow him that humble peace he longed for.
-- Never had the impossibility of his position in the world's eyes, and his wife's hatred of him, and altogether the might of that mysterious brutal force that guided his life against his spiritual inclinations, and exacted conformity with its decrees and change in his attitude to his wife, been presented to him with such distinctness as that day.
-- He did not believe a single word Stepan Arkadyevitch said to him; to every word he had a thousand objections to make, but he listened to him, feeling that his words were the expression of that mighty brutal force which controlled his life and to which he would have to submit.
-- Again she recalled what the young peasant woman had said, and again she was revolted at the thought; but she could not help admitting that there was a grain of brutal truth in the words.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are brutal 芒聙娄 it's not our busi-ness!'
-- This confession drove her to frenzy, but yet she seems in a way to have liked my brutal frankness.
-- It's a brutal state to be in!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He cut her faceright open, and pounded her in the most brutal manner, when shetook him; but she never loosed her hold till he was locked up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw him through the window, seizing his horse's mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away.
-- I looked at those hands, I looked at those eyes, I looked at that flowing hair; and I compared them with other hands, other eyes, other hair, that I knew of, and with what those might be after twenty years of a brutal husband and a stormy life.
-- The two brutal casts, always inseparable in my mind from the official proceedings, seemed to be congestively considering whether they didn't smell fire at the present moment.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He agreed; and I went on by assuring him, that the ship was made by creatures like myself; who, in all the countries I had travelled, as well as in my own, were the only governing rational animals; and that upon my arrival hither, I was as much astonished to see the Houyhnhnms act like rational beings, as he, or his friends, could be, in finding some marks of reason in a creature he was pleased to call a Yahoo; to which I owned 301my resemblance in every part, but could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature.
-- He said, 'if it were possible there could be any country where Yahoos alone were endued with rea-son, they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason in time will always prevail against brutal strength.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet there she was, not three miles away, and more brutal than ever.
-- And also some sort of horrible broil with his own brutal wife, who hated him?
-- Always put me off, brutal as you like.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor man was very uncomfortable, for the children had bereft him of his wife, home was merely a nursery and the perpetual 'hushing' made him feel like a brutal intrud-er whenever he entered the sacred precincts of Babyland.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much; and was in a fair way of being reduced, for life, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill usage he had received.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had marvelled at the insistence and superior airs of Mr. Millice, but the individual conducting here had the same insistence, coupled with almost brutal roughness.
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