1.残暴的;兽性的violent and cruel
a brutal attack/murder/rape/killing野蛮的攻击╱谋杀╱强奸╱杀害
2.直截了当的;冷酷的direct and clear about sth unpleasant; not thinking of people's feelings
With brutal honesty she told him she did not love him.她冷酷地直接告诉他,她不爱他。
After nearly two brutal years, the Great Recession appears to be over, at least technically. Yet a return to normalcy seems far off.
残酷的两年刚刚过去,从技术层面上来看经济衰退初露复苏之兆,但回归常态的路程还很漫长。
The Kremlin might have expected a brutal dispersal of the crowd, but Mr Kuchma would not sanction the use of force.
克里姆林宫也许意料到了对人群的野蛮驱散,但库科马却不会认可使用武力。
And the sort of arbitrary and brutal credit decisions being dished out to customers mean parts of the banking system are breaking down.
而那些加诸于客户、独断而残忍的信贷决定,意味着银行系统的某些部分开始失灵。
The greatest disadvantage of a person is not selfish, passionate, brutal, capricious, but a paranoid love do not love themselves.
一个人最大的缺点不是自私、多情、野蛮、任性,而是偏执的爱一个不爱自己的人。
But historical purists say all this fun stretches the truth of what life was really like which, in many cases, was hard, even brutal.
但历史纯粹主义者表示所有的这些乐趣延伸出真相是生活真的就是这样,在许多情况下非常困难,甚至十分残酷。
then you could go with the full on brutal violence of men with sticks! It's just a suggestion.
然后你继续欣赏这些充满男人野蛮暴力的运动!这只是个建议。
Augusto Odone: And that would tell you what is obvious right now? That avoiding apple skins and pizza has no effect on this brutal disease?
奥古斯托:用来证明现在已经清楚的事实么?证明不吃苹果皮和比萨对这种可怕的疾病没有效?
But southern election campaigns can be a brutal business, and the IRA's many murders and other misdeeds will be repeatedly hurled at him.
但南爱的竞选活动可以说是一个残酷的战斗,因为它伴随着爱尔兰共和军的多起谋杀和其他罪行,这些都可能反反复复的折磨他。
It's a cold, brutal bit of business logic, all dressed up in fine Italian style.
这是冷酷、残忍的商场逻辑,只是以优雅的意大利风格装点门面罢了。
I'll have to be brutal here and say that I sadly don't feel that way about Arsenal with the new campaign just about to start.
我在这里只能残酷的说,对于阿森纳将要开始的新征程,我遗憾的没有感受到那种感觉。
I was selfish and brutal, I forgot how much you had to lose.
我自私,残忍;我忘了你得付出多大的代价。
Litten's demolition of Hitler's argument that the Nazis were a peaceful, democratic movement earned the lawyer years of brutal persecution.
里坦驳倒了了希特勒关于纳粹是和平民主的运动,这使得这位律师遭受了数年残酷的迫害。
For more than a decade, I pondered the question of why the 20th century was characterized by so much brutal upheaval.
有十几年了,我一直在思考为什么20世纪会被描述成如此的残酷和动荡。
Then, however brutal and coarse everything was, the sense of money had kept her proud, confident.
那时,虽然生活无情残酷,但有钱的感觉让她傲慢有底气。
The head of the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla group trying to establish a theocratic government in Uganda using brutal means.
乌干达反抗组织——君主抵抗军的领袖,该游击队组织试图在乌干达以残酷的方式建立起一个神权政府。
Unlike America, China deals with terrorists in a more brutal and to-the-point sort of way.
中国不像美国,中国处理恐怖分子更加严酷,用的是一针见血的招。
No, it was not much fun playing in that light but I suppose it would have been brutal for everyone having to come back in the morning.
不,在这样的光线条件下比赛没有很多乐趣,但是我想如果让所有人都在明天早晨回来就太残酷了。
His tactics were brutal, but effective. Drunk with power, he was feared by all. Except one, his wife was the only one to brave his fury.
他的战术残忍而有效。沉醉于他那强大的力量,他令其他所有的人恐惧。但是除了一个人,他的妻子是唯一有勇气面对他狂怒的人。
It was like the Civil War. Brother against brother. Brutal and uncompromising. You were a Kobe guy or a Shaq guy.
这就像南北战争。同胞和同胞的战争。无情和不让步。你是一个Kobe球迷还是一个Shaq球迷。
Last night had been particularly brutal, and I had no desire to revisit the scene of the suffering.
昨晚的经历实在残暴难耐,我一点也不想再回顾那一幕。
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