| 单词 | fierce |
| 释义 | fierce I. 1. a. < fierce fighting > b. < fierce native tribes > 2. a. < a fierce argument > : heated or violent in nature : without moderation, restraint, or control < a fierce temper > b. (1) < fierce pain > (2) < a fierce light > < a fierce silence > 3. a. obsolete b. < a fierce old hermit > < fierce and barren moors > 4. a. < a fierce effort > : violent < a fierce dash up the mountainside > b. dialect England Synonyms: < the treaty was received with a fierce outburst of indignation. Jay was burned in effigy by wild mobs; angry orators and editors heaped execration upon Washington — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < the fiercest and most treacherous of foes, whose way is to dash upon their prey amid the tempest — H.O.Taylor > < a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken fighting hard with flashing fang and claw — A. Conan Doyle > ferocious may indicate a complete insensible lack of mercy, a wild bloodthirstiness < the ferocious slaughters instituted … by barbarian conquerers — Lewis Mumford > < ferocious countenances which had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before, as if with impatience to pluck him out into the streets and kill him — Charles Dickens > fell may combine notions of direness, malignancy, murderousness, or wasting enervation < murdered by his cruel uncle's mandate fell — S.T.Coleridge > < like a famine or plague or aught more fell — P.B.Shelley > < we cannot tell what the course of this fell war will be as it spreads, remorseless — Sir Winston Churchill > savage may indicate the wild mercilessness of uncivilized tribal society or an utter, nearly animal lack of compunction or inhibition < the son … had been trained in savage Sicilian loyalty and lived only to avenge his father — G.K.Chesterton > cruel indicates pleasure in or callous indifference to pain inflicted on or anticipated or wished for another < he became haughty, tyrannical, and cruel. You must have heard tales in Tahiti of how he punished his men by whipping them till the blood ran down their backs — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < cruel, and full of hate and malice and a petty rage — G.D.Brown > inhuman indicates a nonhuman insensateness to pain or suffering or, occas., to concern, vexation, or chagrin < there an inhuman and uncultured race … rushed to war, tore from the mother's womb the unborn child — P.B.Shelley > < there were few inhuman barbarities aside from the custom of scalping — American Guide Series: Maine > barbarous suggests the cruelty or indifference to suffering and pain of the uncivilized < you have been wantonly attacked by a ruthless and barbarous aggressor. Your capital has been bombed, your women and children brutally murdered — Sir Winston Churchill > < he required as a condition of peace that they should sacrifice their children to Baal no longer. But the barbarous custom was too inveterate and too agreeable to Semitic modes of thought to be so easily eradicated — J.G.Frazer > II. |
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