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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With wonderful presence of mind, Don Pedro, the cruel sire, rushed in, dragged out his daughter, with a hasty aside... 'Don't laugh!Act as if it was all right!'
-- Oh, Pip!Oh, Pip!How could I be so cruel to you?'
-- 'Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.'
-- 'How can you be so cruel to me?'
-- How could you be so rude, so mean, and cruel to us both?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And somehow, at the time, I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don't know what, unless it was the cruel loss of his leg.
-- "Only wait a bit, old chap, and I'll give ye a sling for that wounded arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
-- At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the bows.
-- In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his spirit was roused at last; the cruel insult to his dead mother had set his blood on fire.
-- Come home directly, you cruel boy!Come!'
-- Ha!ha!ha!We won't be so cruel as to send you away, my dear.
-- 'Then you're a cruel man,' said the matron vivaciously, as she held out her hand for the beadle's cup; 'and a very hard-hearted man besides.'
-- This bitter disappointment caused Oliver much sorrow and grief, even in the midst of his happiness; for he had pleased himself, many times during his illness, with thinking of all that Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Bedwin would say to him: and what delight it would be to tell them how many long days and nights he had passed in reflecting on what they had done for him, and in bewailing his cruel separation from them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regi-ment should be quartered in Meryton.
-- 'From what we have seen of him,' continued Mrs. Gar-diner, 'I really should not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by anybody as he has done by poor Wickham.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was on the desperate expedition on the desert shores of Africa, I never had so much as one thought of what would become of me, or one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor dear, it seems quite cruel to let her be alone.
-- It has been, it is a most cruel affliction.
-- "Yes," continued Elinor, gathering more resolution, as some of the worst was over, "Colonel Brandon means it as a testimony of his concern for what has lately passed for the cruel situation in which the unjustifiable conduct of your family has placed you a concern which I am sure Marianne, myself, and all your friends, must share; and likewise as a proof of his high esteem for your general character, and his particular approbation of your behaviour on the present occasion."
-- Hour after hour passed away in sleepless pain and delirium on Marianne's side, and in the most cruel anxiety on Elinor's, before Mr. Harris appeared.
-- " "Your indifference, however, towards that unfortunate girl I must say it, unpleasant to me as the discussion of such a subject may well be your indifference is no apology for your cruel neglect of her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the stage, Mrs. Van Dam was making her cruel insinuation against Laura.
-- Never before had he seen such a cold, steely determination in her eye--such a cruel look of indifference.
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