callous
callous 英 [ˈkæləs] 美 [ˈkæləs]
adj. 无情的；麻木的；硬结的；起老茧的 vt. 使冷酷无情；使硬结；使生茧 vi. 变得冷酷无情；结茧；变硬
进行时:callousing 过去式:calloused 过去分词:calloused 第三人称单数:callouses 名词复数:callouss
- A callous person is insensitive or emotionally hardened. If you laugh at your little sister while she's trying to show you her poetry, you're being callous.
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- adj. 无情的；麻木的；硬结的；起老茧的
- vt. 使冷酷无情；使硬结；使生茧
- vi. 变得冷酷无情；结茧；变硬
- n. 硬皮；老茧
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1. It revels in the psychological torture of the protagonists, and as callous as it sounds, the “heroes” make themselves victims more than they really should.
它在主角的心理折磨中狂欢，而正如听上去那样的麻木，“英雄们”使自己变成了比原本应该成为的更严重的受害者。
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2. For one thing, some Muslims are likely to see the burial at sea as disrespectful or callous, and Muslim religious experts seem to be divided on this issue.
一方面，一些穆斯林可能会认为这是对海葬的不敬或认为其无情，当然穆斯林宗教专家似乎在这个问题上分歧。
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3. Page is rarely so callous, but like his friend he seems blind to shades of gray, particularly when looking at his own company.
佩奇很少这样麻木，但是跟他的朋友一样，他是看起来各种形势视而不见，对待自己的公司特别是这样。
- callous (adj.) c. 1400, "hardened," in the physical sense, from Latin callosus "thick-skinned," from callus, callum "hard skin" (see callus). The figurative sense of "unfeeling, hardened in the mind" appeared in English by 1670s. Related: Callously; callousness.
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