| 释义 |
ruthless, a.|ˈruːθlɪs|
[f. ruth n.1 + -less.]
Devoid of pity or compassion; pitiless, unsparing, merciless.
c1327Pol. Songs (Camden) 255 For wel is wo. the lond is reutheles. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 230 Of my woo he is so rewthelesse. c1386― Man of Law's T. 765 Sche loketh bak-ward to the lond, And seyde, ‘Farwel, housbond rewtheles!’ 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 8593 Achilles..Routheles in his malencolye. 1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 145 Thus thou prayis, ‘Haif mercy, lady, haif reuth and sum piete!’ And scho, reuthles, agane rewis on the. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. iv. 34 The ruthlesse Flint doth cut my tender feet. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. ii. 482 Till ruth-less Death..Thy dust-born body turn to dust again. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 121 Why, what a ruthlesse thing is this.., to take away the life of a man? 1717Pope Iliad ix. 585 The vengeful Fiends below, And ruthless Proserpine, confirm'd his Vow. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 345 Ye who, unmov'd, can brave the ruthless storm. 1791Cowper Odyss. xviii. 105 He shall despoil thee with his ruthless steel. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. xii. 264 Ruthless and inexorable, when his theological empire was in peril. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xii. 219 He was..defended against a ten years siege from ruthless facts. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 217 The unsparing use of the ruthless stockwhip. |