barbarous
barbarous 英 [ˈbɑ:bərəs] 美 [ˈbɑrbərəs]
adj. 野蛮的；残暴的
- To be barbarous is to be vicious and cruel or simply uncivilized. Wearing a leopard-pelt skirt and swatting at people with a wooden club is barbarous, and so is eating spaghetti with your hands.
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- adj. 野蛮的；残暴的
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1. But even worse were those that succeeded in exciting the senses, but in barbarous ways.
更糟糕的是那些成功制造了感官刺激，而方式却极为野蛮的影片。
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2. In the Amazon, most are descended from groups who escaped the depradations of the rubber boom, a period of barbarous development that began in the late 19th century and continued well into the 20th.
亚马逊地区的大多数原始居民都是从橡胶掠夺中幸存下来的族群的后代，这股橡胶掠夺的野蛮风潮起始于19世纪晚期并一直延续到20世纪。
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3. He developed a museum depicting the barbarous treatment that was prevalent in asylums for the insane.
他创立了一所博物馆，专门展示在精神病院里普遍存在的野蛮的治疗方法。
- barbarous (adj.) c. 1400, "uncivilized, uncultured, ignorant," from Latin barbarus "strange, foreign, barbarous," from Greek barbaros "foreign, uncivilized" (see barbarian (n.)). Meaning "not Greek or Latin" (of words or language) is from c. 1500; that of "savagely cruel" is from 1580s. Related: Barbarously; barbarousness.
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