Definition of brute in English:

brute

noun bruːtbrut

1A savagely violent person or animal.
残忍的人（或野兽）
he was a cold-blooded brute
他是一个残暴的冷血动物。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the people are not violent brutes then they are passive victims.
- Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side.
- We cannot ourselves contribute to the stereotype that portrays these men as savage brutes unable to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner.
- Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us.
- But that, in a way, is what it is to be a human being: an aesthete and yet still a savage, a moral being with a brute's appetite.
- To others, we are a combination of animals, brutes, deviates, psychopaths, products of broken homes, or just plain psychologically unbalanced individuals.
- The people who really could complain about being portrayed as sadistic brutes are the Roman soldiers.
- These form a virtual catalogue of Europe's vision of the New World's inhabitants, who were seen in turn as noble savages or heathen brutes.
- It was cold out there and that horse was a notorious brute.
- She was the only young girl in a tavern full of large ugly brutes.
- The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices.
- All the stories that she had heard about Gryphon's made them out as brutes and violent beasts, but Osiris proved them wrong every day.
- My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings.
- What about that line - every person, every single person had the potential to be a brute, a thug, a murderer - do you think that's true?
- Traffic jitters and frustration turned nice people into bullies and brutes.
- But the popular image of Mary Shelley's monster as a lurching brute is a world away from her original vision.
- On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute.
- Running contrary to the accepted belief that Neanderthals were nothing but savage brutes, the child - either a foetus aged seven months or a child no more than a few weeks old - had been buried in a grave.
- ‘You were not made to live like brutes,’ Levi quotes, ‘but to follow virtue and knowledge.’
- The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth.
Synonyms
savage, beast, monster, animal, sadist, barbarian, devil, demon, fiend, ogre
1. 1.1informal A cruel or insensitive person.
  〈非正式〉残忍的人；令人不快的人；麻木不仁的人
  what an unfeeling little brute you are
  你真是个心肠铁硬、麻木不仁的小东西。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Among the people he knows in London are Wemmick, a clerk in Jaggers' office who becomes a friend, and Bentley Drummle, a horrible brute of a boy who begins to make moves on Estella.
  The public would view the woman's affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her.
  Eventually, though, her Catholic aspirations to Protestant gentility and heavy-handed elocution lessons failed to soothe her brute of a husband.
  He's a brute, an offense to human decency.
  Synonyms
  monster, devil
2. 1.2 Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant.
  笨拙的（或困难的、令人讨厌的）东西
  a great brute of a machine
  一台笨拙的机器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton.
  Keith Hodgson was next to suffer, popping up an easy return catch to the bowler while Gavin Mories was the victim of another brute of a delivery, playing down the line of middle stump only to see the ball shatter off-stump.
  It's a big brute of a hill, with a north-east trending ridge of almost three kilometres in length, much of it over the 800m mark.
  In the second innings, Singh made a start and had reached 15 when, in the over before lunch, Gilchrist sent down a brute of a bouncer.
  When Pietersen came to the wicket he barely survived an absolute brute of a ball reared up at him and almost gave McGrath a hat trick.
  Wales were narrowly ahead in a Grand Slam, winner-takes-all brute of a game against France, who were cranking up the pressure through their fearsome pack.
  Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
  Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre.
  In Donald's third over he produced a brute of a ball aimed straight at Atherton's throat.
  ‘It was a brute of a ball from Cassar and I don't think I could have done anything to avoid it,’ added Vaughan.
  ‘It will of course be a very different style,’ began the Home Secretary before sending down a brute of a ball at the new batsman.
  I was quite surprised by how easy it was to drive for such a big brute of a car and I found it easy to adapt to automatic in it.
  The skipper did not even bother to be in Mumbai with the team, which eventually registered a dramatic victory on a brute of a pitch.
  After yesterday's brutal third round of the 105th US Open, it was a chastened field who scurried off for the sanctuary of the locker room, bruised and battered into submission by a brute of a course.
  It's a brute of a soundwave kicking me in the back of my neck.
  So, not life or death here - just a brute of a golf course.
2An animal as opposed to a human being.
野兽
we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses
Example sentencesExamples
- At one time a pack of them made an attack on Mr. Paschal's dog when tied within ten feet of the cabin, and but for prompt interference the canine would have furnished a supper for the hungry brutes.
- The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
- Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes.
- What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying.
Synonyms
animal, beast, wild animal, wild beast, creature
informal critter

adjective bruːtbrut

1attributive Characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence.
a brute struggle for social superiority
为了取得优越的社会地位而作的不理智的斗争。
Example sentencesExamples
- Davidson's reply will of course be to deny that brute animals have thoughts at all.
- Someone who is unable to resist a craving, and who must, like a brute beast, do whatever the body demands, is more profoundly enslaved than someone subject to a human tyrant.
- Reason, Morton said, was the faculty that differentiated man from brute beasts.
- This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater.
- In today's society our environment and culture has shaped what was once a brute drive to reproduce, into skills and expertise which secure prominence and survival in the modern world.
- The brute outvoting of one social group by another is not so much Mill's focus as the process by which majority opinion is formed and accepted as legitimate.
- Geertz writes that to claim that culture consists in brute patterns of behaviour in some identifiable community is to reduce it (the community and the notion of culture).
- What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land?
- Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work.
- Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it.
- He was relieved to be somewhere peaceful rather than duking it out with Tom like some kind of brute animal, not that he wouldn't eventually fight Tom.
1. 1.1 Merely physical.
  单纯体力的
  we achieve little by brute force
  单靠蛮力我们可能一事无成。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial.
  Sometimes brute strength and strategic maneuvers enable the intruder to force his way past the guard and into the tunnel, where the sparring resumes.
  Such relations, contributing to a sense of continuity bridge the gap between the listener and the brute physicality of the musical language.
  It was made up of ‘horse whisperers’, men who knew and passed on the secret of quickly breaking wild horses by bonding with them and earning their trust, rather than using brute force.
  The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace.
  But Carrot is actually the figure in the unconscious of every policeman and every criminal, who stands for justice, and who makes policing something more than the exercise of brute force.
  It depends mostly on economic strength, backed up with intimidation and brute force.
  The triumph of the strong over the weak and the effectiveness and inevitability of brute force are merely the working out of the natural order.
  Kain's character is the epitome of the physical character; brute force and power are his primary tools.
  We stand to lose as long as we keep convincing other people in other parts of the world that the only way you can really resolve a dispute is by having more weapon strength, more brute force.
  Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
  It's the only form of politics he knows: You foment a crisis, then use deceit, fear and brute force to impose your radical agenda.
  Unlike in some other sports, sheer athletic ability and brute strength play a less prominent role.
  For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them.
  On the one hand a dreamy excursion into one of the most exotic but desolate places in the world and on the other sheer brute physicality, the annual Marathon des Sables is seven days of exultation and desperation in the Sahara Desert.
  But there's little hope that a bully who is accustomed to satisfying his craving for any substance through brute force would want to change now, even as disaster looms large on the horizon.
  Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength.
  I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’
  But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny.
  I'm quite small like Bruce Lee was and martial arts are really about agility and skill, there's very little brute force involved.
  Synonyms
  physical, crude, fleshly, bodily, violent
2. 1.2 Fundamental, inescapable, and unpleasant.
  the brute necessities of basic subsistence
  基本的生活必需品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is an abstract response to the brute reality of experience.
  By definition and in brute reality the world that an organism inhabits is part of that organism.
  A moral and ethical position must be based on something more than the mere brute facts of the event.
  Thus the behaviorist is entitled to the answer that the behavioral differences get explained in the ordinary way, as a means of an ongoing coping with the world of brute facts.
  And what of the brute fact that such a demand has never been met?
  You believe that matter is the sole or ultimate reality, in terms of which everything can be understood, and the material universe is a brute fact which requires no further explanation.
  Life Of Pi's implicit lesson is that faced with the brute reality of Nature, man is but a cork on the ocean.
  But underlying the brute numbers, which can bounce around in a misleading way, is the trend, and that is worth getting excited about.
  And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.
  Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact.
  The centrality of horses and the brute reality of the injury keeps it planted; this is a great story, gripping to read and giving a meaningful payoff at the end.
  Of course we have to find some way to replace all this biosphere-wrecking stuff, but we also have to keep in mind the brute reality that nature will not cease pushing to reclaim her own the very instant we let down our guard.
  In Western psychological thinking, shame has been more tied to competition than to the brute fact of dependency.
  Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way.
  Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts.
  Not everyone can or should be a tragedian, and art is often best not when it reflects brute reality but when it keeps alive what is forgotten or dimmed by the shadows.
  The permanent features of our situation seem mere brute facts - to be endured or, if possible, gotten around.
  Aesthetic values, on the other hand, are a celebration of mind over matter, a refusal to yield to the brute presence of the given, the triumph of imagination, anticipation and longing, over the world of things.
  Perhaps morality is just a brute fact of the universe.
  The first element has to do with the brute fact of economics.
  Synonyms
  sheer, pure, utter, downright, mere, plain, stark, absolute, out-and-out, direct

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus 'dull, stupid'.

Brute comes from Old French brut(e), from Latin brūtus ‘dull, stupid’.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

Definition of brute in US English:

brute

nounbro͞otbrut

1A savagely violent person or animal.
残忍的人（或野兽）
he was a cold-blooded brute
他是一个残暴的冷血动物。
Example sentencesExamples
- The people who really could complain about being portrayed as sadistic brutes are the Roman soldiers.
- Running contrary to the accepted belief that Neanderthals were nothing but savage brutes, the child - either a foetus aged seven months or a child no more than a few weeks old - had been buried in a grave.
- My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings.
- If the people are not violent brutes then they are passive victims.
- But that, in a way, is what it is to be a human being: an aesthete and yet still a savage, a moral being with a brute's appetite.
- These form a virtual catalogue of Europe's vision of the New World's inhabitants, who were seen in turn as noble savages or heathen brutes.
- All the stories that she had heard about Gryphon's made them out as brutes and violent beasts, but Osiris proved them wrong every day.
- Traffic jitters and frustration turned nice people into bullies and brutes.
- But the popular image of Mary Shelley's monster as a lurching brute is a world away from her original vision.
- Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us.
- It was cold out there and that horse was a notorious brute.
- On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute.
- She was the only young girl in a tavern full of large ugly brutes.
- Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side.
- The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth.
- What about that line - every person, every single person had the potential to be a brute, a thug, a murderer - do you think that's true?
- The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices.
- We cannot ourselves contribute to the stereotype that portrays these men as savage brutes unable to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner.
- ‘You were not made to live like brutes,’ Levi quotes, ‘but to follow virtue and knowledge.’
- To others, we are a combination of animals, brutes, deviates, psychopaths, products of broken homes, or just plain psychologically unbalanced individuals.
Synonyms
savage, beast, monster, animal, sadist, barbarian, devil, demon, fiend, ogre
1. 1.1informal A cruel or insensitive person.
  〈非正式〉残忍的人；令人不快的人；麻木不仁的人
  what an unfeeling little brute you are
  你真是个心肠铁硬、麻木不仁的小东西。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's a brute, an offense to human decency.
  Eventually, though, her Catholic aspirations to Protestant gentility and heavy-handed elocution lessons failed to soothe her brute of a husband.
  The public would view the woman's affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her.
  Among the people he knows in London are Wemmick, a clerk in Jaggers' office who becomes a friend, and Bentley Drummle, a horrible brute of a boy who begins to make moves on Estella.
  Synonyms
  monster, devil
2. 1.2 Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant.
  笨拙的（或困难的、令人讨厌的）东西
  a great brute of a machine
  一台笨拙的机器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wales were narrowly ahead in a Grand Slam, winner-takes-all brute of a game against France, who were cranking up the pressure through their fearsome pack.
  After yesterday's brutal third round of the 105th US Open, it was a chastened field who scurried off for the sanctuary of the locker room, bruised and battered into submission by a brute of a course.
  I was quite surprised by how easy it was to drive for such a big brute of a car and I found it easy to adapt to automatic in it.
  So, not life or death here - just a brute of a golf course.
  The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton.
  It's a brute of a soundwave kicking me in the back of my neck.
  Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre.
  In the second innings, Singh made a start and had reached 15 when, in the over before lunch, Gilchrist sent down a brute of a bouncer.
  Keith Hodgson was next to suffer, popping up an easy return catch to the bowler while Gavin Mories was the victim of another brute of a delivery, playing down the line of middle stump only to see the ball shatter off-stump.
  The skipper did not even bother to be in Mumbai with the team, which eventually registered a dramatic victory on a brute of a pitch.
  Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
  When Pietersen came to the wicket he barely survived an absolute brute of a ball reared up at him and almost gave McGrath a hat trick.
  ‘It was a brute of a ball from Cassar and I don't think I could have done anything to avoid it,’ added Vaughan.
  In Donald's third over he produced a brute of a ball aimed straight at Atherton's throat.
  ‘It will of course be a very different style,’ began the Home Secretary before sending down a brute of a ball at the new batsman.
  It's a big brute of a hill, with a north-east trending ridge of almost three kilometres in length, much of it over the 800m mark.
2An animal as opposed to a human being.
野兽
we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses
Example sentencesExamples
- Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes.
- What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying.
- The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
- At one time a pack of them made an attack on Mr. Paschal's dog when tied within ten feet of the cabin, and but for prompt interference the canine would have furnished a supper for the hungry brutes.
Synonyms
animal, beast, wild animal, wild beast, creature

adjectivebro͞otbrut

1attributive Characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence.
a brute struggle for social superiority
为了取得优越的社会地位而作的不理智的斗争。
Example sentencesExamples
- Reason, Morton said, was the faculty that differentiated man from brute beasts.
- Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work.
- What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land?
- He was relieved to be somewhere peaceful rather than duking it out with Tom like some kind of brute animal, not that he wouldn't eventually fight Tom.
- This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater.
- The brute outvoting of one social group by another is not so much Mill's focus as the process by which majority opinion is formed and accepted as legitimate.
- Someone who is unable to resist a craving, and who must, like a brute beast, do whatever the body demands, is more profoundly enslaved than someone subject to a human tyrant.
- Geertz writes that to claim that culture consists in brute patterns of behaviour in some identifiable community is to reduce it (the community and the notion of culture).
- In today's society our environment and culture has shaped what was once a brute drive to reproduce, into skills and expertise which secure prominence and survival in the modern world.
- Davidson's reply will of course be to deny that brute animals have thoughts at all.
- Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it.
1. 1.1 Merely physical.
  单纯体力的
  we achieve little by brute force
  单靠蛮力我们可能一事无成。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We stand to lose as long as we keep convincing other people in other parts of the world that the only way you can really resolve a dispute is by having more weapon strength, more brute force.
  I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’
  It depends mostly on economic strength, backed up with intimidation and brute force.
  Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty.
  Kain's character is the epitome of the physical character; brute force and power are his primary tools.
  But there's little hope that a bully who is accustomed to satisfying his craving for any substance through brute force would want to change now, even as disaster looms large on the horizon.
  The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial.
  On the one hand a dreamy excursion into one of the most exotic but desolate places in the world and on the other sheer brute physicality, the annual Marathon des Sables is seven days of exultation and desperation in the Sahara Desert.
  It was made up of ‘horse whisperers’, men who knew and passed on the secret of quickly breaking wild horses by bonding with them and earning their trust, rather than using brute force.
  But Carrot is actually the figure in the unconscious of every policeman and every criminal, who stands for justice, and who makes policing something more than the exercise of brute force.
  Sometimes brute strength and strategic maneuvers enable the intruder to force his way past the guard and into the tunnel, where the sparring resumes.
  For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them.
  Unlike in some other sports, sheer athletic ability and brute strength play a less prominent role.
  Such relations, contributing to a sense of continuity bridge the gap between the listener and the brute physicality of the musical language.
  The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace.
  I'm quite small like Bruce Lee was and martial arts are really about agility and skill, there's very little brute force involved.
  Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength.
  The triumph of the strong over the weak and the effectiveness and inevitability of brute force are merely the working out of the natural order.
  It's the only form of politics he knows: You foment a crisis, then use deceit, fear and brute force to impose your radical agenda.
  But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny.
  Synonyms
  physical, crude, fleshly, bodily, violent
2. 1.2 Fundamental, inescapable, and unpleasant.
  the brute necessities of basic subsistence
  基本的生活必需品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not everyone can or should be a tragedian, and art is often best not when it reflects brute reality but when it keeps alive what is forgotten or dimmed by the shadows.
  And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.
  Aesthetic values, on the other hand, are a celebration of mind over matter, a refusal to yield to the brute presence of the given, the triumph of imagination, anticipation and longing, over the world of things.
  Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact.
  You believe that matter is the sole or ultimate reality, in terms of which everything can be understood, and the material universe is a brute fact which requires no further explanation.
  The centrality of horses and the brute reality of the injury keeps it planted; this is a great story, gripping to read and giving a meaningful payoff at the end.
  By definition and in brute reality the world that an organism inhabits is part of that organism.
  Perhaps morality is just a brute fact of the universe.
  Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way.
  In Western psychological thinking, shame has been more tied to competition than to the brute fact of dependency.
  The permanent features of our situation seem mere brute facts - to be endured or, if possible, gotten around.
  But underlying the brute numbers, which can bounce around in a misleading way, is the trend, and that is worth getting excited about.
  And what of the brute fact that such a demand has never been met?
  Of course we have to find some way to replace all this biosphere-wrecking stuff, but we also have to keep in mind the brute reality that nature will not cease pushing to reclaim her own the very instant we let down our guard.
  It is an abstract response to the brute reality of experience.
  Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts.
  A moral and ethical position must be based on something more than the mere brute facts of the event.
  Thus the behaviorist is entitled to the answer that the behavioral differences get explained in the ordinary way, as a means of an ongoing coping with the world of brute facts.
  The first element has to do with the brute fact of economics.
  Life Of Pi's implicit lesson is that faced with the brute reality of Nature, man is but a cork on the ocean.
  Synonyms
  sheer, pure, utter, downright, mere, plain, stark, absolute, out-and-out, direct

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus ‘dull, stupid’.

单词	brute
释义	Definition of brute in English: brute noun bruːtbrut 1A savagely violent person or animal. 残忍的人（或野兽） he was a cold-blooded brute 他是一个残暴的冷血动物。 Example sentencesExamples If the people are not violent brutes then they are passive victims. Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side. We cannot ourselves contribute to the stereotype that portrays these men as savage brutes unable to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner. Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us. But that, in a way, is what it is to be a human being: an aesthete and yet still a savage, a moral being with a brute's appetite. To others, we are a combination of animals, brutes, deviates, psychopaths, products of broken homes, or just plain psychologically unbalanced individuals. The people who really could complain about being portrayed as sadistic brutes are the Roman soldiers. These form a virtual catalogue of Europe's vision of the New World's inhabitants, who were seen in turn as noble savages or heathen brutes. It was cold out there and that horse was a notorious brute. She was the only young girl in a tavern full of large ugly brutes. The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. All the stories that she had heard about Gryphon's made them out as brutes and violent beasts, but Osiris proved them wrong every day. My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings. What about that line - every person, every single person had the potential to be a brute, a thug, a murderer - do you think that's true? Traffic jitters and frustration turned nice people into bullies and brutes. But the popular image of Mary Shelley's monster as a lurching brute is a world away from her original vision. On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute. Running contrary to the accepted belief that Neanderthals were nothing but savage brutes, the child - either a foetus aged seven months or a child no more than a few weeks old - had been buried in a grave. ‘You were not made to live like brutes,’ Levi quotes, ‘but to follow virtue and knowledge.’ The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth. Synonyms savage, beast, monster, animal, sadist, barbarian, devil, demon, fiend, ogre 1.1informal A cruel or insensitive person. 〈非正式〉残忍的人；令人不快的人；麻木不仁的人 what an unfeeling little brute you are 你真是个心肠铁硬、麻木不仁的小东西。 Example sentencesExamples Among the people he knows in London are Wemmick, a clerk in Jaggers' office who becomes a friend, and Bentley Drummle, a horrible brute of a boy who begins to make moves on Estella. The public would view the woman's affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her. Eventually, though, her Catholic aspirations to Protestant gentility and heavy-handed elocution lessons failed to soothe her brute of a husband. He's a brute, an offense to human decency. Synonyms monster, devil 1.2 Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant. 笨拙的（或困难的、令人讨厌的）东西 a great brute of a machine 一台笨拙的机器。 Example sentencesExamples The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton. Keith Hodgson was next to suffer, popping up an easy return catch to the bowler while Gavin Mories was the victim of another brute of a delivery, playing down the line of middle stump only to see the ball shatter off-stump. It's a big brute of a hill, with a north-east trending ridge of almost three kilometres in length, much of it over the 800m mark. In the second innings, Singh made a start and had reached 15 when, in the over before lunch, Gilchrist sent down a brute of a bouncer. When Pietersen came to the wicket he barely survived an absolute brute of a ball reared up at him and almost gave McGrath a hat trick. Wales were narrowly ahead in a Grand Slam, winner-takes-all brute of a game against France, who were cranking up the pressure through their fearsome pack. Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre. In Donald's third over he produced a brute of a ball aimed straight at Atherton's throat. ‘It was a brute of a ball from Cassar and I don't think I could have done anything to avoid it,’ added Vaughan. ‘It will of course be a very different style,’ began the Home Secretary before sending down a brute of a ball at the new batsman. I was quite surprised by how easy it was to drive for such a big brute of a car and I found it easy to adapt to automatic in it. The skipper did not even bother to be in Mumbai with the team, which eventually registered a dramatic victory on a brute of a pitch. After yesterday's brutal third round of the 105th US Open, it was a chastened field who scurried off for the sanctuary of the locker room, bruised and battered into submission by a brute of a course. It's a brute of a soundwave kicking me in the back of my neck. So, not life or death here - just a brute of a golf course. 2An animal as opposed to a human being. 野兽 we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses Example sentencesExamples At one time a pack of them made an attack on Mr. Paschal's dog when tied within ten feet of the cabin, and but for prompt interference the canine would have furnished a supper for the hungry brutes. The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane. Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes. What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying. Synonyms animal, beast, wild animal, wild beast, creature informal critter adjective bruːtbrut 1attributive Characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence. a brute struggle for social superiority 为了取得优越的社会地位而作的不理智的斗争。 Example sentencesExamples Davidson's reply will of course be to deny that brute animals have thoughts at all. Someone who is unable to resist a craving, and who must, like a brute beast, do whatever the body demands, is more profoundly enslaved than someone subject to a human tyrant. Reason, Morton said, was the faculty that differentiated man from brute beasts. This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater. In today's society our environment and culture has shaped what was once a brute drive to reproduce, into skills and expertise which secure prominence and survival in the modern world. The brute outvoting of one social group by another is not so much Mill's focus as the process by which majority opinion is formed and accepted as legitimate. Geertz writes that to claim that culture consists in brute patterns of behaviour in some identifiable community is to reduce it (the community and the notion of culture). What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land? Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work. Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it. He was relieved to be somewhere peaceful rather than duking it out with Tom like some kind of brute animal, not that he wouldn't eventually fight Tom. 1.1 Merely physical. 单纯体力的 we achieve little by brute force 单靠蛮力我们可能一事无成。 Example sentencesExamples The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial. Sometimes brute strength and strategic maneuvers enable the intruder to force his way past the guard and into the tunnel, where the sparring resumes. Such relations, contributing to a sense of continuity bridge the gap between the listener and the brute physicality of the musical language. It was made up of ‘horse whisperers’, men who knew and passed on the secret of quickly breaking wild horses by bonding with them and earning their trust, rather than using brute force. The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace. But Carrot is actually the figure in the unconscious of every policeman and every criminal, who stands for justice, and who makes policing something more than the exercise of brute force. It depends mostly on economic strength, backed up with intimidation and brute force. The triumph of the strong over the weak and the effectiveness and inevitability of brute force are merely the working out of the natural order. Kain's character is the epitome of the physical character; brute force and power are his primary tools. We stand to lose as long as we keep convincing other people in other parts of the world that the only way you can really resolve a dispute is by having more weapon strength, more brute force. Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty. It's the only form of politics he knows: You foment a crisis, then use deceit, fear and brute force to impose your radical agenda. Unlike in some other sports, sheer athletic ability and brute strength play a less prominent role. For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them. On the one hand a dreamy excursion into one of the most exotic but desolate places in the world and on the other sheer brute physicality, the annual Marathon des Sables is seven days of exultation and desperation in the Sahara Desert. But there's little hope that a bully who is accustomed to satisfying his craving for any substance through brute force would want to change now, even as disaster looms large on the horizon. Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength. I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’ But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny. I'm quite small like Bruce Lee was and martial arts are really about agility and skill, there's very little brute force involved. Synonyms physical, crude, fleshly, bodily, violent 1.2 Fundamental, inescapable, and unpleasant. the brute necessities of basic subsistence 基本的生活必需品。 Example sentencesExamples It is an abstract response to the brute reality of experience. By definition and in brute reality the world that an organism inhabits is part of that organism. A moral and ethical position must be based on something more than the mere brute facts of the event. Thus the behaviorist is entitled to the answer that the behavioral differences get explained in the ordinary way, as a means of an ongoing coping with the world of brute facts. And what of the brute fact that such a demand has never been met? You believe that matter is the sole or ultimate reality, in terms of which everything can be understood, and the material universe is a brute fact which requires no further explanation. Life Of Pi's implicit lesson is that faced with the brute reality of Nature, man is but a cork on the ocean. But underlying the brute numbers, which can bounce around in a misleading way, is the trend, and that is worth getting excited about. And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning. Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact. The centrality of horses and the brute reality of the injury keeps it planted; this is a great story, gripping to read and giving a meaningful payoff at the end. Of course we have to find some way to replace all this biosphere-wrecking stuff, but we also have to keep in mind the brute reality that nature will not cease pushing to reclaim her own the very instant we let down our guard. In Western psychological thinking, shame has been more tied to competition than to the brute fact of dependency. Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way. Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts. Not everyone can or should be a tragedian, and art is often best not when it reflects brute reality but when it keeps alive what is forgotten or dimmed by the shadows. The permanent features of our situation seem mere brute facts - to be endured or, if possible, gotten around. Aesthetic values, on the other hand, are a celebration of mind over matter, a refusal to yield to the brute presence of the given, the triumph of imagination, anticipation and longing, over the world of things. Perhaps morality is just a brute fact of the universe. The first element has to do with the brute fact of economics. Synonyms sheer, pure, utter, downright, mere, plain, stark, absolute, out-and-out, direct Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus 'dull, stupid'. Brute comes from Old French brut(e), from Latin brūtus ‘dull, stupid’. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of brute in US English: brute nounbro͞otbrut 1A savagely violent person or animal. 残忍的人（或野兽） he was a cold-blooded brute 他是一个残暴的冷血动物。 Example sentencesExamples The people who really could complain about being portrayed as sadistic brutes are the Roman soldiers. Running contrary to the accepted belief that Neanderthals were nothing but savage brutes, the child - either a foetus aged seven months or a child no more than a few weeks old - had been buried in a grave. My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings. If the people are not violent brutes then they are passive victims. But that, in a way, is what it is to be a human being: an aesthete and yet still a savage, a moral being with a brute's appetite. These form a virtual catalogue of Europe's vision of the New World's inhabitants, who were seen in turn as noble savages or heathen brutes. All the stories that she had heard about Gryphon's made them out as brutes and violent beasts, but Osiris proved them wrong every day. Traffic jitters and frustration turned nice people into bullies and brutes. But the popular image of Mary Shelley's monster as a lurching brute is a world away from her original vision. Watching these distinguished gentlemen operate, we feel certain that the old stereotypes of Italian-American men as Mafiosi, brutes, sexual predators, or idiots are behind us. It was cold out there and that horse was a notorious brute. On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute. She was the only young girl in a tavern full of large ugly brutes. Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side. The Irish father is a brute of a colonial policeman who, when not violating his child, enjoys casually smacking her in the mouth. What about that line - every person, every single person had the potential to be a brute, a thug, a murderer - do you think that's true? The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. We cannot ourselves contribute to the stereotype that portrays these men as savage brutes unable to resolve their differences in a peaceful manner. ‘You were not made to live like brutes,’ Levi quotes, ‘but to follow virtue and knowledge.’ To others, we are a combination of animals, brutes, deviates, psychopaths, products of broken homes, or just plain psychologically unbalanced individuals. Synonyms savage, beast, monster, animal, sadist, barbarian, devil, demon, fiend, ogre 1.1informal A cruel or insensitive person. 〈非正式〉残忍的人；令人不快的人；麻木不仁的人 what an unfeeling little brute you are 你真是个心肠铁硬、麻木不仁的小东西。 Example sentencesExamples He's a brute, an offense to human decency. Eventually, though, her Catholic aspirations to Protestant gentility and heavy-handed elocution lessons failed to soothe her brute of a husband. The public would view the woman's affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her. Among the people he knows in London are Wemmick, a clerk in Jaggers' office who becomes a friend, and Bentley Drummle, a horrible brute of a boy who begins to make moves on Estella. Synonyms monster, devil 1.2 Something awkward, difficult, or unpleasant. 笨拙的（或困难的、令人讨厌的）东西 a great brute of a machine 一台笨拙的机器。 Example sentencesExamples Wales were narrowly ahead in a Grand Slam, winner-takes-all brute of a game against France, who were cranking up the pressure through their fearsome pack. After yesterday's brutal third round of the 105th US Open, it was a chastened field who scurried off for the sanctuary of the locker room, bruised and battered into submission by a brute of a course. I was quite surprised by how easy it was to drive for such a big brute of a car and I found it easy to adapt to automatic in it. So, not life or death here - just a brute of a golf course. The written section was tough - hardly anything on quantum theory, and a brute of a paper on the cell chemistry of Micronesian diatomic plankton. It's a brute of a soundwave kicking me in the back of my neck. Like everybody, I graduated from an unwieldy brute of a greenheart rod to the featherlight power of carbon fibre. In the second innings, Singh made a start and had reached 15 when, in the over before lunch, Gilchrist sent down a brute of a bouncer. Keith Hodgson was next to suffer, popping up an easy return catch to the bowler while Gavin Mories was the victim of another brute of a delivery, playing down the line of middle stump only to see the ball shatter off-stump. The skipper did not even bother to be in Mumbai with the team, which eventually registered a dramatic victory on a brute of a pitch. Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building When Pietersen came to the wicket he barely survived an absolute brute of a ball reared up at him and almost gave McGrath a hat trick. ‘It was a brute of a ball from Cassar and I don't think I could have done anything to avoid it,’ added Vaughan. In Donald's third over he produced a brute of a ball aimed straight at Atherton's throat. ‘It will of course be a very different style,’ began the Home Secretary before sending down a brute of a ball at the new batsman. It's a big brute of a hill, with a north-east trending ridge of almost three kilometres in length, much of it over the 800m mark. 2An animal as opposed to a human being. 野兽 we, unlike dumb brutes, can reflect upon our impulses Example sentencesExamples Some observers hypothesize that she had been indoctrinated to believe the malicious stereotype of the Ursidae as awkward, clumsy, ill-mannered brutes. What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying. The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane. At one time a pack of them made an attack on Mr. Paschal's dog when tied within ten feet of the cabin, and but for prompt interference the canine would have furnished a supper for the hungry brutes. Synonyms animal, beast, wild animal, wild beast, creature adjectivebro͞otbrut 1attributive Characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence. a brute struggle for social superiority 为了取得优越的社会地位而作的不理智的斗争。 Example sentencesExamples Reason, Morton said, was the faculty that differentiated man from brute beasts. Beating addictions needs more expert advice and just brute will-power is very unlikely to work. What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land? He was relieved to be somewhere peaceful rather than duking it out with Tom like some kind of brute animal, not that he wouldn't eventually fight Tom. This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater. The brute outvoting of one social group by another is not so much Mill's focus as the process by which majority opinion is formed and accepted as legitimate. Someone who is unable to resist a craving, and who must, like a brute beast, do whatever the body demands, is more profoundly enslaved than someone subject to a human tyrant. Geertz writes that to claim that culture consists in brute patterns of behaviour in some identifiable community is to reduce it (the community and the notion of culture). In today's society our environment and culture has shaped what was once a brute drive to reproduce, into skills and expertise which secure prominence and survival in the modern world. Davidson's reply will of course be to deny that brute animals have thoughts at all. Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it. 1.1 Merely physical. 单纯体力的 we achieve little by brute force 单靠蛮力我们可能一事无成。 Example sentencesExamples We stand to lose as long as we keep convincing other people in other parts of the world that the only way you can really resolve a dispute is by having more weapon strength, more brute force. I used to know a guy who said, ‘There is no problem so subtle or complex that it can't be solved by brute force and ignorance.’ It depends mostly on economic strength, backed up with intimidation and brute force. Tenderness is more of a show of strength than brute force, because it is harder to be compassionate than it is to be mighty. Kain's character is the epitome of the physical character; brute force and power are his primary tools. But there's little hope that a bully who is accustomed to satisfying his craving for any substance through brute force would want to change now, even as disaster looms large on the horizon. The power to hoist such weight is not all brute strength - though physical force is crucial. On the one hand a dreamy excursion into one of the most exotic but desolate places in the world and on the other sheer brute physicality, the annual Marathon des Sables is seven days of exultation and desperation in the Sahara Desert. It was made up of ‘horse whisperers’, men who knew and passed on the secret of quickly breaking wild horses by bonding with them and earning their trust, rather than using brute force. But Carrot is actually the figure in the unconscious of every policeman and every criminal, who stands for justice, and who makes policing something more than the exercise of brute force. Sometimes brute strength and strategic maneuvers enable the intruder to force his way past the guard and into the tunnel, where the sparring resumes. For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them. Unlike in some other sports, sheer athletic ability and brute strength play a less prominent role. Such relations, contributing to a sense of continuity bridge the gap between the listener and the brute physicality of the musical language. The possession of vast territory, raw physical resources, and brute power guarantees neither prosperity nor peace. I'm quite small like Bruce Lee was and martial arts are really about agility and skill, there's very little brute force involved. Unlike the hard martial arts, Tai chi is characterized by soft, slow, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength. The triumph of the strong over the weak and the effectiveness and inevitability of brute force are merely the working out of the natural order. It's the only form of politics he knows: You foment a crisis, then use deceit, fear and brute force to impose your radical agenda. But the people of Puerto Rico are also human beings with a right to live and prosper that brute force cannot deny. Synonyms physical, crude, fleshly, bodily, violent 1.2 Fundamental, inescapable, and unpleasant. the brute necessities of basic subsistence 基本的生活必需品。 Example sentencesExamples Not everyone can or should be a tragedian, and art is often best not when it reflects brute reality but when it keeps alive what is forgotten or dimmed by the shadows. And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning. Aesthetic values, on the other hand, are a celebration of mind over matter, a refusal to yield to the brute presence of the given, the triumph of imagination, anticipation and longing, over the world of things. Instead she just accepted this sleight of hand as a matter of brute fact. You believe that matter is the sole or ultimate reality, in terms of which everything can be understood, and the material universe is a brute fact which requires no further explanation. The centrality of horses and the brute reality of the injury keeps it planted; this is a great story, gripping to read and giving a meaningful payoff at the end. By definition and in brute reality the world that an organism inhabits is part of that organism. Perhaps morality is just a brute fact of the universe. Through brute necessity, we realized that there are a lot of things you can fix, commandeer, or re-tool on the fly, and that sometimes the best stuff happens that way. In Western psychological thinking, shame has been more tied to competition than to the brute fact of dependency. The permanent features of our situation seem mere brute facts - to be endured or, if possible, gotten around. But underlying the brute numbers, which can bounce around in a misleading way, is the trend, and that is worth getting excited about. And what of the brute fact that such a demand has never been met? Of course we have to find some way to replace all this biosphere-wrecking stuff, but we also have to keep in mind the brute reality that nature will not cease pushing to reclaim her own the very instant we let down our guard. It is an abstract response to the brute reality of experience. Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts. A moral and ethical position must be based on something more than the mere brute facts of the event. Thus the behaviorist is entitled to the answer that the behavioral differences get explained in the ordinary way, as a means of an ongoing coping with the world of brute facts. The first element has to do with the brute fact of economics. Life Of Pi's implicit lesson is that faced with the brute reality of Nature, man is but a cork on the ocean. Synonyms sheer, pure, utter, downright, mere, plain, stark, absolute, out-and-out, direct Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French brut(e), from Latin brutus ‘dull, stupid’.
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