cruelty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 残酷； 残酷行为，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is really pitiable, particularly when one gets into the hands of a little blackguard, perfect in all sorts of cruelty to animals: all I should like to know is, how the story will end.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had not looked for such cruelty in her sister, and she was angry with her.
-- "This cruelty is something new I did not know in you."
-- "You call it cruelty for a husband to give his wife liberty, giving her the honorable protection of his name, simply on the condition of observing the proprieties: is that cruelty?"
-- The cruelty with which he shattered the world she had built up for herself so laboriously to enable her to endure her hard life, the injustice with which he had accused her of affectation, of artificiality, aroused her.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He describes the awful agony of the condemned man and insists on the cruelty of inflicting such torture.
-- She had not even noticed the cruelty of his words.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, it is a wicked cruelty to me it is it is!"
-- Now, anything short of cruelty will content me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Come!You shall not shed tears for my cruelty to-day; you shall be my Page, and give me your shoulder."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the sparrow; 'thy cruelty shall cost thee they life yet!'
-- But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried 'Carter!thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!'
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：
-- She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies, and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.
-- It was the cruelty of utter impotence.
-- It was a world of iron and coal, the cruelty of iron and the smoke of coal, and the endless, endless greed that drove it all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in his way of spurning them out of their places with his heel, and getting them into the required position, that Clennam thought had an air of cruelty in it.
-- 'But the cruelty of Uncle!'
-- 'O, I never can forgive the wanton cruelty of Uncle!'
-- The devotion of Mr Sparkler was only to be equalled by the caprice and cruelty of his enslaver.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- But his pride, his abominable pride his shame-less avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excit-ed.
-- 'This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event inwhich we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me hence-forth of cruelty towards Mr. Wickham.
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