brutal/cruel/ruthless.导航词义：野蛮的

1. brutal:adj. 野蛮的，残暴的.指极为残忍、暴力、野蛮的，强调没有同情心，含不择手段的意味。

brutal killing/murder/rape

野蛮的杀害/谋杀/强奸

The brutal attack on defenseless children and women was strongly criticized.

对手无寸铁的妇女和儿童进行的野蛮攻击遭到了强烈谴责。

2. cruel:adj. 残忍的，残酷的.普通用词，主要指行为或态度残忍的。

His cruel father nearly beat him to death.

残忍的父亲差点把他打死。

Fate dealt her a cruel blow.

命运给她以惨痛的打击。

He was criticized for his cruel acts.

他因行为残忍而受到谴责。

3. ruthless:adj. 残忍的，冷酷的.指为了达到个人目的而对他人的痛苦毫无怜悯之心的。

He is a ruthless adversary.

他是个冷酷无情的对手。

The dictator was ruthless in getting what he wanted.

那个独裁者为达目的不择手段，残酷无情。

全部

1·They lived in happy insulation from brutal facts.

他们生活在幸福中，与残酷事实相隔绝。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Eddy found himself plunged into a world of brutal violence.

埃迪发现自己突然陷入了一个残酷暴力的世界。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The people have been kept down for years by a brutal regime.

多年来人们一直受到残暴统治的压制。《牛津词典》

4·This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.

残酷的现实和抒情诗般的美并存贯穿于帕克的故事之中。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Brutal clashes between squatters and police yesterday ruptured the city's governing coalition.

昨天私自占地者与警察的野蛮冲突使这座城市的执政联盟破裂。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal.

胡克很想这么做，但似乎太残忍了。

7·Steel says working 20 hours a day is pretty brutal physically.

斯蒂尔说每天工作20个小时“对身体来说相当残酷”。

8·As one of the most brutal predators, killer whales may not fit the image of a cultured creature.

作为最残忍的掠食者之一，虎鲸可能不符合文明动物的形象。

9·That does not lessen the shock value for a modern reader, even though war in our time is no less savage and no less brutal.

对于现在读者，它的震惊效果并未削弱，尽管现代的战争不再那样野蛮残忍。

10·The singer Michael Jackson's story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy.

歌手迈克尔·杰克逊的故事，尽管不同寻常地残酷和极端，但在谈到音乐天才方面时，却是启迪人心。

残酷的

1·They lived in happy insulation from brutal facts.

他们生活在幸福中，与残酷事实相隔绝。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Eddy found himself plunged into a world of brutal violence.

埃迪发现自己突然陷入了一个残酷暴力的世界。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.

残酷的现实和抒情诗般的美并存贯穿于帕克的故事之中。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Steel says working 20 hours a day is pretty brutal physically.

斯蒂尔说每天工作20个小时“对身体来说相当残酷”。

5·The singer Michael Jackson's story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy.

歌手迈克尔·杰克逊的故事，尽管不同寻常地残酷和极端，但在谈到音乐天才方面时，却是启迪人心。

残忍的

1·As one of the most brutal predators, killer whales may not fit the image of a cultured creature.

作为最残忍的掠食者之一，虎鲸可能不符合文明动物的形象。

2·Over the last couple of decades the number of people opposed to fox hunting, because they think it is brutal, has risen sharply.

在过去的几十年里，反对猎狐的人急剧增加，因为他们认为这很残忍。

3·This is a brutal killing.

这是一起残忍的谋杀。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·America wants to end the reign of a brutal rebel group. But can it?

美国想要终结一个残忍的叛军组织的统治。但美国能成功吗？

5·From humble forest dwellers we were forced to become brutal soldiers.

我们从卑微的森林居民，被迫变成残忍的士兵。

野蛮的

1·This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, but an average guy, up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.

这不是一个志愿兵，也不是一个收入丰厚的人，而是一个普通人，起而反抗几个世纪以来训练最好、装备最好、最凶猛、最野蛮的敌人。

2·Brutal clashes between squatters and police yesterday ruptured the city's governing coalition.

昨天私自占地者与警察的野蛮冲突使这座城市的执政联盟破裂。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·I should not like to be brutal or seem extravagant.

我不愿显得野蛮或也不想看似放肆。

4·He recalls confrontations, additional interrogations in the middle of the night, and brutal beatings.

他回忆起当时有当面对质，半夜突击的审问，还有野蛮的殴打。

5·Warriors can be primitive and atavistic-which is to say brutal.

战士可以是原始和返祖性的——也可以说野蛮。

残暴的

1·He was the victim of a very brutal murder.

他是一桩异常残暴的谋杀案的受害者。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Adding to his troubles are famine conditions in the north and west, where his inability to bring a final end to the brutal Lords' Resistance Army detracts from any other achievements there.

乌干达北面和西面的饥荒状况也给他增加了麻烦，而且他无法阻止残暴的上帝抵抗军对这些地方在其他方面所取得的成就进行损害。

3·The fight may end up harmless, but sometimes also very brutal.

战斗可能以无害的方式结束，但有时也可能非常残暴。

4·Our patients have told us the most brutal stories - about children who are forced to kill their parents and people burnt alive inside their homes.

我们的病人跟我们讲述了最为残暴的故事——孩子被迫杀死自己的父母，一些人在房子里活活被烧死。

5·His brutal reign would foreshadow the arrival of the Spanish warriors called Conquistadors who would plunder and destroy the large, wealthy Aztec, Incan, and Mayan civilizations.

他的残暴统治预示了所谓的“西班牙征服者”将对幅员辽阔，物资丰饶的阿兹特克、印加和玛雅文明进行的毁灭。

粗暴

1·Some people feel that American football is a brutal sport.

一些人认为美式足球是一项粗暴的运动。

2·Some may be just too sensitive to survive that brutal honesty and so it’s important to be tender and gentle with loved ones.

有一些人很敏感，并不能应对粗暴的诚实，所以和爱人交往的时候温柔是非常重要的。

3·Her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, who went out to give lessons in spite of his age.

她的父亲是个性情粗暴、爱吹牛的老数学教师，从没正式结过婚，虽然上了年纪，却还靠替人补课度日。

4·Egypt’s Mubarak, Tunisia’s Ben Ali, and Syria’s Assad built brutal (and deeply illiberal) police states with strong secularist support.

埃及的穆巴拉克，突尼斯的本阿里，以及叙利亚的阿萨德都凭借强势的世俗主义支持建立起粗暴的（同时也是极度不自由的）警察国家。

5·After entering, Huishou closed and can not be strong, brutal.

进入后，回手关门，不能大力、粗暴。

暴虐

1·In Ailing Zhang's novels, as his father's brutal childhood, and irresponsible men make Ailing Zhang's role in society had a question, and even had a patricide complex.

在张爱玲的小说创作中，由于童年时期父亲的暴虐和不负责任使得张爱玲对男性在社会中的角色产生了质疑，甚至产生了弑父情结。

(1)brutal violence暴力