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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, Ilisten to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, andemphasising all the dread words with a cruel relish.
-- That cruel man with the wooden leg, aggravated mysufferings.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His dancing proved to be just what she had believed it, extremely good; and Harriet would have seemed almost too lucky, if it had not been for the cruel state of things before, and for the very complete enjoyment and very high sense of the distinction which her happy features announced.
-- How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates!How could she have exposed herself to such ill opinion in any one she valued!
-- A cold stormy rain set in, and nothing of July appeared but in the trees and shrubs, which the wind was despoiling, and the length of the day, which only made such cruel sights the longer visible.
-- In such a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than oth-erwise; but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But, miss, how can I say he is not if ""You graceless girl!How can you have the cruel heart to repeat what they say?
-- Night, in its sad, solemn, and benevolent aspect, apart from its stealthy and cruel side, was personified in this form.
-- If she had only lived, I could have been angry and cruel towards her with some justification; but to be vindictive towards a poor dead woman recoils upon myself.
-- I thought, when I found you were not at home, that something cruel had happened.
-- "It shows you didn't care a bit about me, and were ready to desert me like all the rest of them!It was very cruel of you, considering I was the first sweetheart that you ever had, and you were the first I ever had; and I shall not forget it!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have only two," her boarder answered meekly, like a ruined man who is broken in to all the cruel usage of misfortune.
-- Father Goriot's face, which had shone at the student's words like the sun on a bright day, clouded over all at once at this cruel speech of Vautrin's.
-- ); that as Victorine's mother had nothing when he married her, Victorine ought not to expect anything from him; in fact, he said the most cruel things, that made the poor child burst out crying.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instru-ments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
-- But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearnfor her all the more.
-- It's bad enough for Ashley to be marrying the Hamilton child, but for Honey to be marrying that pale-lookingCharles Hamilton " "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her ownpopularity.
-- How thoughtless and cruel of me!"
-- " 'When This Cruel War Is Over.'
-- When this cruel war is over Pray that we meet again!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For I believed one of two other persons to have become possessed of it, and to have turned it to this cruel account.
-- She looked at me, and looked at Sarah, and Sarah's countenance wrung out of her watchful face a cruel smile.
-- Now, I come to the cruel part of the story,--merely breaking off, my dear Handel, to remark that a dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler."
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