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：
-- But the task would exceed our prerog-atives; and, as history, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Veran will be viewed by pos-terity only as the gallant defender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego and of the Hori-can will be forgotten.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a slow smile, starting and sometimes ending in the eyes; it was very sensual, neither cruel nor kindly, but suggested rather the inhuman glee of the satyr.
-- Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite.
-- What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe.
-- It was cruel that his extreme unhappiness should have in it something of buffoonery.
-- I think it's terrible that she should have been deprived of it in that cruel way, and I am ashamed because I do not really care."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a cruel thing to keep the dear child shut up there.
-- Please God, we shall be there soon to-morrow or next day at the farthest and in the meantime let us think, dear, that it was a good thing we came here; for we are lost in the crowd and hurry of this place, and if any cruel people should pursue us, they could surely never trace us further.
-- I shall be cruel when I like.
-- It would be cruel to find him out!'
-- The man was not unnaturally cruel or hard-hearted.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the depth of his soul he knew that his action was so base, abominable and cruel that, with that action upon his conscience, not only would he have no right to condemn others but he should not be able to look others in the face, to say nothing of considering himself the good, noble, magnanimous man he esteemed himself.
-- Meanwhile he already felt in the depth of his soul all the cruelty, dastardliness and baseness not only of that act of his, but of his whole idle, dissolute, cruel and wayward life.
-- And what cruel truths you used to tell us!Why don't you tell us now?
-- She felt that she must submit to the cruel injustice which was perpetrated on her.
-- Go to your princesses----" "You cannot be too cruel to me; you do not know how I feel," he said in a low voice, his whole body trembling.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.
-- It went to all our hearts, I think, to leave them in that wretched state; but we could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it would be too cruel to wake her.
-- He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione.
-- This temper now entered like a virus into the firm, and there were cruel eruptions.
-- She knew, with the perfect cynicism of cruel youth, that to rise in the world meant to have one outside show instead of another, the advance was like having a spurious half-crown instead of a spurious penny.
-- Her legs, scarcely formed yet, the legs of a maiden just passing towards cruel womanhood, dangled childishly over the side of the powerful horse, pathetically, the small feet folded one over the other, as if to hide.
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