beast
beast 英 [bi:st] 美 [bist]
n. 野兽；畜生
名词复数:beasts
- A beast is an animal — and usually not a gentle or attractive one. You can also call a person a beast when they're behaving in a crude, savage, or horrible way.
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- n. 野兽；畜生
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1. wild beasts, savage beasts, ferocious beasts
野兽；猛兽；凶残的动物
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2. mythical beasts such as unicorns and dragons
独角兽和龙之类的神异动物
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3. The maths exam was a real beast.
数学考试实在令人憎恶。
- beast (n.) c. 1200, beste, "one of the lower animals" (opposed to man), especially "a four-footed animal," also "a marvelous creature, a monster" (mermaids, werewolves, lamia, satyrs, the beast of the Apocalypse), "a brutish or stupid man," from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild animal," which is of unknown origin.
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