cruel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 残忍的， 残酷的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that; the uncle made a graceful gesture of protest, which was so clearly a slight form of good breeding that it was not reassuring.
-- A rumour just lived in the village had a faint and bare existence there, as its people had that when the knife struck home, the faces changed, from fac-es of pride to faces of anger and pain; also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again, and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.
-- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer imple-ments, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife.
-- She stood immovable close to the grim old officer, and remained -immovable close to him; remained immovable close to him through the streets, as Defarge and the rest bore him along; remained immovable close to him when he was got near 311his destination, and began to be struck at from behind; re-mained immovable close to him when the long-gathering rain of stabs and blows fell heavy; was so close to him when he dropped dead under it, that, suddenly animated, she put her foot upon his neck, and with her cruel knife long ready hewed off his head.
-- When great masses of stone and timber fell, the face with 329the two dints in the nose became obscured: anon struggled out of the smoke again, as if it were the face of the cruel Mar-quis, burning at the stake and contending with the fire.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have lived to see the most cruel thing that anyone can live to see!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room.
-- She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
-- A hawklike, greedy, cruel expression was left upon it.
-- "What an inclination we all have, though, for these cruel spectacles," he said.
-- His wife's words, confirming his worst suspicions, had sent a cruel pang to the heart of Alexey Alexandrovitch.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The operating-room--white tile walls and white tile floor and glittering frosted-glass skylight--seemed lined with fire-lit ice, and the large incandescents glared on the glass instrument cases, the cruel little knives.
-- What would be the worth of having all the world if he could not show it to her, if she was not there-- He denounced Nature for her way of tricking human beings, by every gay device of moonlight and white limbs and reaching loneliness, into having babies, then making birth as cruel and clumsy and wasteful as she could.
-- It was Martin's most pitiful fault that he was not very kind to shy people and lonely people and stupid old people; he was not cruel to them, he simply was unconscious of them or so impatient of their fumbling that he avoided them.
-- They did take his working hours, they did scratch his belief that he was hard-hearted, but they implored him with such wretched timorousness that he could not get rid of them without making promises, and admitting afterward that to have been more cruel would have been less cruel.
-- Then for half an hour did Dr. Arrowsmith and Dr. Marchand, forgetting the plague, forgetting the more cruel plague of race- fear, draw diagrams.
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：
-- On the left side, just over the heart, was a large, sin-ister-looking yellowish-black bruise a cruel kick from the horse's hoof.
-- Afterwards he saw her lower lip quiver with indignation at her brother's inso-lent, cruel and ungrateful words and his fate was sealed.
-- He does not like showing his feelings and would rath-er do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
-- 'Cruel man!To be able to jeer at it!Let me go 芒聙娄' 'Where are you going?'
-- 'I have come to tell you that though you will be unhappy, you must believe that your son loves you now more than himself, and that all you thought about me, that I was cruel and didn't care about you, was all a mistake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How canyou go on as if it was all settled and arranged, Peggotty, when I tellyou over and over again, you cruel thing, that beyond thecommonest civilities nothing has passed?
-- 'I have seen it very cruel to some ofour men.
-- 'This is your doing, Peggotty, you cruel thing!'
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