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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cruelty of the New Zealanders was beyond a doubt, therefore it was dangerous to land.
-- He was bold and brave, but his cruelty was equally remarkable.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The melancholy appearance of some of her guests seemed to add to her sarcastic humour, and perhaps the very cynicism and cruelty of the game proposed by Ferdishenko pleased her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I knew too clearly the terror and brutal cruelty my advances would evoke.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abruptly the cruelty of this desertion became clear to me.
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：
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- It was happy for Uncas and the scout, and even David, that they were all beyond the reach of his arm at such a mo-ment; for, assuredly, no refinement in cruelty would then have deferred their deaths, in opposition to the promptings of the fierce temper that nearly choked him.
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：
-- His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the auto da fe of an heretic when with some forgotten story he can confound the filial piety of the Rev.
-- There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
-- I have an idea that there was some cruelty in her indifference.
-- I wondered what an abyss of cruelty she must have looked into that in horror she refused to live.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, this fortuitous meeting brought everything to his mind, and compelled the acknowledgment of his heartlessness, cruelty and baseness which made it possible for him to live undisturbed by the sin which lay on his conscience.
-- When he began to mutter about man's cruelty and woman's helplessness, the justiciary, desiring to help him, asked him to confine himself to the facts of the case.
-- At the first moment she hazily recalled that new, wonderful world of feeling and thought which had been opened to her by that charming young man who loved her, and whom she loved, and then his inexplicable cruelty and the long chain of humiliation and suffering which followed as the direct result of that enchanting bliss, and it pained her.
-- Since his visit to Maslenikoff, especially since his trip to the country, Nekhludoff felt an aversion for that sphere in which he had been living heretofore, and in which the sufferings borne by millions of people in order to secure the comforts and pleasures of a few, were so carefully concealed that the people of that sphere did not and could not see these sufferings, and consequently the cruelty and criminality of their own lives.
-- He also came across a vagabond, and a woman, whose stupidity and apparent cruelty were repulsive, but he failed to find in them that criminal type spoken of by the Italian school.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What if cruelty had grown into a common passion?
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：
-- Her heart was arrested with fury at the mindlessness and the bestial stupidity of this struggle, her wrists were badly scored by the claws of the beast, a heavy cruelty welled up in her.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their own good-nature must point out to them the real cruelty of appearing to know any thing about it when she is present; and the less that may ever be said to myself on the subject, the more my feelings will be spared, as you my dear madam will easily believe."
-- The cruelty of Mrs. Jennings no language, within her reach in her moments of happiest eloquence, could have expressed; and now she could reproach her only by the tears which streamed from her eyes with passionate violence a reproach, however, so entirely lost on its object, that after many expressions of pity, she withdrew, still referring her to the letter of comfort.
-- Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.
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