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brutish

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ˈbruːtɪʃ
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释义

adj. 粗野的;残忍的;野兽般的

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The man was brutish and coarse.
这个人野蛮而粗俗。
His brutish family, usually happy to enjoy the fruits of his thievery—marmalade and a birthday cake filched from someone's shopping bag.
他那粗野的家人通常很乐意享用他偷来的成果——果酱和从别人购物袋里偷来的生日蛋糕。
LIFE at the bottom is nasty, brutish and short.
底层社会的人们生活污秽肮脏、粗野鄙陋、一无所有。

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that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty,brutish and short."(Laughter)
At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again,instead of the nasty, brutish past.So why does this matter?
to my great-grandmother,who lived such a short and brutish life,You can't buy your way out of suffering or into meaning.
Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago.
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