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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The words it contained were these:troi ats tannia gonie austral aborcontin pr cruel indi jete ongitet 37 degrees 11" LAT"There are figures!"
-- In a few minutes he had written as follows:7 Juin 1862 trois-mats Britannia Glasgow sombre gonie austral a terre deux matelots capitaine Gr abor contin pr cruel indi jete ce document de longitude et 37 degrees 11" de latitude Portez-leur secours perdus.
-- [7th of June, 1862 three-mast BRITANNIA Glasgow]foundered gonie southernon the coast two sailors GrCaptain landedcontin pr cruel indi thrown this document in longitudeand 37 degrees 11" latitude Bring them assistance lostJust at that moment one of the sailors came to inform the captain that they were about entering the Firth of Clyde, and to ask what were his orders.
-- There are two letters here providentially which give a clew to their fate—PR, that must mean prisoners, and CRUEL INDIAN is evidently the meaning of the next two words.
-- These unfortunate men are captives in the hands of cruel Indians.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain wanton and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.
-- If they are innocent it would be a cruel injustice, and if they are guilty we should be giving up all chance of bringing it home to them.
-- Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cruel people!Oh, what hazy understandings they have on such matters!Her mother was the first to show the way.
-- It would be cruel and inhuman.
-- Do not laugh at the fool!Forget him!Forget him forever!I beseech you, do not be so cruel as to remember!Do you know that if I were not consumptive, I would kill myself?'
-- 'Oh, you cruel little girl!How will you treat us all next, I wonder?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bid-ding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
-- Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.
-- We gods are continually suffering in the most cruel manner at one another's hands while helping mortals; and we all owe you a grudge for having begotten that mad termagant of a daughter, who is always committing outrage of some kind.
-- It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated bru-tally by some cruel task-master; then will one say who sees you weeping, 'She was wife to Hector, the bravest warrior among the Trojans during the war before Ilius.'
-- Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Troy before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely, Duncan, those cruel murders, those terrific scenes of torture, of which we read and hear so much, are never acted in the presence of such as he!'
-- Then, shaking his head in a mournful manner, he muttered: 'Twould have been a cruel and an unhuman act for a white-skin; but 'tis the gift and natur' of an Indian, and I suppose it should not be denied.
-- Duncan caught the letter from the ground, and without apology for the liberty he took, he read at a glance its cruel purport.
-- The cruel work was still unchecked.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he could have chosen to dupe her in so ready a manner seemed a cruel thing.
-- There was something cruel somewhere, and not being able to track it mentally to its logical lair, she concluded with feeling that he would never understand what Hurstwood had done and would see hard-hearted decision in her deed; hence her shame.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Human beings CAN be awful cruel to one another.
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