Inhuman
[ɪn'hjuːmən] or [ɪn'hjʊmən]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; 'something dark and inhuman in form'; 'a babel of inhuman noises' .
埃尔希編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
(a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. Barbarous, brutal, SAVAGE, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, remorseless, merciless, fell, ferocious, unfeeling.
布鲁克整理
解釋/意思:
adj. barbarous: cruel: unfeeling.—n. Inhuman′ity the state of being inhuman: barbarity: cruelty.—adv. Inhū′manly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But genuine politics is not an inhuman task. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And he looked down in surprise, hearing the almost inhuman chuckle of the child at his side. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When I exclaimed that this appeared rather inhuman, he [the informant] answered, 'Why, what can be done? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Terrible and inhuman were his examinations into every detail; there was no privacy he would spare, no old sentiment but he would turn it over. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But Birkin rowed evenly and unswerving, with an inhuman inevitability. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I believe in something inhuman, of which love is only a little part. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Whatever life might be, it could not take away death, the inhuman transcendent death. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Human or inhuman mattered nothing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Voices were still calling in inhuman agitation through the dark-grey air, spectres were running along the darkness between the train. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was simply inhuman of Pragg to go off now, Mrs. Trenor declared, as her friend seated herself at the desk. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Some of our best-intentioned political schemes, like reform colonies and scientific jails, turn out to be inhuman tyrannies just because our imagination does not penetrate the sociological label. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I also had engaged myself not to desert them; it appeared to me inhuman to ground any infraction of my word on theirs. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There was something inhuman even in their humanitarian zeal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There was a new world, a new order, strict, terrible, inhuman, but satisfying in its very destructiveness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was this inhuman principle in the mechanism he wanted to construct that inspired Gerald with an almost religious exaltation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He sat slack and motionless in the boat, his head blunt and blind like a seal's, his whole appearance inhuman, unknowing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What inhuman rogues there are in the world! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- To her mind, he was a pure, inhuman, almost superhuman instrument. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Certainly; it would indeed be very impertinent and inhuman in me to trouble you with any inquisitiveness of mine. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was the daughters of men coming back to the sons of God, the strange inhuman sons of God who are in the beginning. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Oh, the accursed cruelty of these inhuman persecutors! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Turning round, he saw his father's eyes wide open, strained and rolling in a frenzy of inhuman struggling. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She felt she would swoon, die, under the vibrating, inhuman tension of his arms and his body--she would pass away. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I beg for mercy--I cannot bear this any longer--it is inhuman to go further with this! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Something in him, inhuman and unmitigated, disturbed her, and shook her out of her ordinary self. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I am not of an inhuman disposition, sir. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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