1. 殘酷的;冷酷的;殘忍的;殘暴的 Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
e.g. Children can be so cruel... 孩子有時(shí)可能會(huì )相當殘忍。 e.g. Don't you think it's cruel to cage a creature up? 你不認為把動(dòng)物關(guān)進(jìn)籠里太殘忍了嗎？
cruelly Douglas was often cruelly tormented by jealous siblings. 道格拉斯經(jīng)常被嫉妒他的兄弟姐妹整得很慘。
2. (處境或事件)引起痛苦的，殘酷的 A situation or event that is cruel is very harsh and causes people distress.
e.g. ...struggling to survive in a cruel world with which they cannot cope... 在一個(gè)難以應付的殘酷世界里拼命求生 e.g. By a cruel irony, his horse came down on a flat part of the course. 十分殘酷而且極具諷刺意味的是，他的馬在賽場(chǎng)的平地上摔倒了。
cruelly His life has been cruelly shattered by an event not of his own making. 他的一生被一件原本與他無(wú)關(guān)的事殘酷地毀了。
cruel英英釋義
adj
1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
e.g. a barbarous crime brutal beatings cruel tortures Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks a savage slap vicious kicks