喜樂美語

Picture someone who can see that another person or animal is in pain — and keeps going anyway. The hurting is not something they failed to notice; it is something they don't mind causing. That is where the weight of the word sits.

可以想成一個人明明看得見對方在痛，卻還是繼續做下去。那個痛不是他沒注意到，是他不介意造成。cruel 的重量就落在這個「看見了還繼續」上——所以它比 unkind、mean 都重得多。

Two branches

狠心的人，以及讓人一樣痛的事

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cruel (deliberately hurtful) · adjective · B1

Hurting people or animals on purpose, or saying things you know will hurt. A cruel person can see that someone is upset or in pain and does not care.

殘忍的／狠心的

只活在 be cruel to be kind 裡

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be cruel to be kind · adjective · B2

in the phrase 'be cruel to be kind': to do something that upsets or disappoints someone now, because you know it will help them later.

忠言逆耳；狠下心為對方好

同家族的字

比較級 crueller / crueler最高級 cruellest / cruelest

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

crueladj詞源 1/ˈkɹuːəl/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    Harsh; severe.

    • We're certainly having quite a cruel winter this year.
    • The thought that something might befall him that would leave her entirely at the mercy of this beast caused him greater anxiety than the probability that almost certain death awaited her should she be left entirely alone upon the outskirts of the cruel forest.
  • 3

    slangCool; awesome; neat.

crueladv詞源 1/ˈkɹuːəl/

  • 1

    To a great degree; terribly.

    • "But I've served 'im ten years, and I'm fond of 'im, and, mind you, 'e's a great man, when all's said an' done, and it's an honor to serve 'im. But 'e does try one cruel at times."
    • 'I've never got arthritis, though my old dad had it something cruel.'

cruelverb詞源 1/ˈkɹuːəl/

  • 1

    To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)

    • What cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.
    • He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.
  • 2

    To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

    • Violence is apparently introduced early by the practice of "cruelling": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.
    • […] I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • crewel

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。