ruthless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 残忍的, 无情的，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.
-- Let him then yield; it is only Hades who is utterly ruthless and unyielding and hence he is of all gods the one most hateful to mankind.
-- 'Cruel son of Peleus,' you would say, 'your mother must have suckled you on gall, so ruthless are you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were many women at that time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but, there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless 515woman, now taking her way along the streets.
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：
-- Then a cry of vengeance burst at once, as it might be, from the united lips of the nation; a frightful augury of their ruthless intentions.
-- During this moment of tumult, the most ruthless deeds of war were performed on the fragments of the tree, with as much apparent ferocity as if they were the living victims of their cruelty.
-- But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre, the ledge was tenanted only by the dead.
-- In short, any eye at all practised in the signs of a frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he went, he was ruthless and convinced enough regarding himself.
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：
-- I thought of the happy life that pair had led in the cosy studio in Montmartre, Stroeve and his wife, their simplicity, kindness, and hospitality; it seemed to me cruel that it should have been broken to pieces by a ruthless chance; but the cruellest thing of all was that in fact it made no great difference.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I denounced myselfas a remorseless brute and a ruthless beast.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.
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：
-- There was an elation and a satisfaction in it all, but it was cruelly exhausting for the newcomers, this ruthless mental pressure, this powerful, consuming, destructive mentality that emanated from Joshua and Hermione and Birkin and dominated the rest.
-- Loerke was kept away from Gudrun, to whom he wanted to speak, as by a hedge of thorns, and he felt a sardonic ruthless hatred for this young love-companion, Leitner, who was his penniless dependent.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because there were two boats in his wake, and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip very quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerations towards oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always manifested by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances not unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to military navies and armies.
-- Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour passed by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with thick darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless every sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
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