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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He may have been married already, and her cruel mortification may have been a part of her half-brother's scheme," said Herbert.
-- "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There,' cried the sparrow, 'thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog.
-- 'No,' cried he, 'that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will eat her.'
-- 'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- In the meantime, there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was immediately by the force of it, struck to the ground: and when I was down, the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis-balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot, that I could not go abroad in ten days.
-- In a few minutes I came to myself, and he carried me safe to my little nurse, who, by this time, had returned to the place where she left me, and was in cruel agonies when I did not appear, nor answer when she called.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He frightened me so,' said the girl, 'with his cruel faces!'
-- 'Thou hast been a cruel sufferer, Heaven reward thee!'
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
-- 'Your cruel commands are implicitly to be obeyed; though I am the most unfortunate fellow in the world, I believe, to have been insensible to all other women, and to have fallen prostrate at last under the foot of the most beautiful, and the most engaging, and the most imperious.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To lie down and die the most cruel and horrible of deaths!
-- I felt myself precipitated violently into the boiling waves, and if I escaped from a certain and cruel death, it was wholly owing to the determination of the faithful Hans, who, clutching me by the arm, saved me from the yawning abyss.
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：
-- Men were very kind to the PERSONshe was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether.
-- But even in its sleep it was an uneasy, cruel world, stirring with the noise of a train or some great lorry on the road, and flashing with some rosy lightning flash from the furnaces.
-- It was the cruel sense of unfinished aloneness, that needed a silent woman folded in his arms.
-- It was cruel for Clifford, while the world bloomed, to have to be helped from chair to bath-chair.
-- It was cruel of her at that moment: for his pride had suffered bitterly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner.
-- It said so in the proud eyes, in the lifted nostril, in the handsome but compressed and even cruel mouth.
-- 'I am deeply sensible, mother, that if this thought has never at any time flashed upon you, it must seem cruel and unnatural in me, even in this confidence, to breathe it.
-- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me.
-- I think it would be almost cowardly and cruel not to have some little attachment for it, after all this.'
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