英语词汇“animal cruelty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

animal cruelty n. (a) cruelty to animals; (b) the savagery of animals; brutish or mindless cruelty by people, likened to the behaviour of animals.

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1809 Monthly Reg. July 35/1 The animal cruelty prevention bill.

1879 T. L. Haines & L. W. Yaggy Royal Path of Life (new ed.) 242 Traces of this animal cruelty are seen in men and women to-day. Let a woman fall from virtue and nine-tenths of her sisters will turn and tear her to pieces.

1921 F. B. Young Tragic Bride xiii. 154 He had caught a baby rabbit, and now he was torturing the small terrified creature... She watched this display of animal cruelty with horror.

1936 Times 25 Sept. 5/6 The evidence is of animal cruelty, and a disregard of all humanity, as shown by the fact that you were practically uninjured, while the dead man was literally battered to death and strangled.

2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Dec. (City section) 5 Two contract workers were convicted of animal cruelty after being filmed playing ‘baseball’ with live turkeys.

单词	animal cruelty
释义	> as lemmas animal cruelty animal cruelty n. (a) cruelty to animals; (b) the savagery of animals; brutish or mindless cruelty by people, likened to the behaviour of animals. ΚΠ 1809 Monthly Reg. July 35/1 The animal cruelty prevention bill. 1879 T. L. Haines & L. W. Yaggy Royal Path of Life (new ed.) 242 Traces of this animal cruelty are seen in men and women to-day. Let a woman fall from virtue and nine-tenths of her sisters will turn and tear her to pieces. 1921 F. B. Young Tragic Bride xiii. 154 He had caught a baby rabbit, and now he was torturing the small terrified creature... She watched this display of animal cruelty with horror. 1936 Times 25 Sept. 5/6 The evidence is of animal cruelty, and a disregard of all humanity, as shown by the fact that you were practically uninjured, while the dead man was literally battered to death and strangled. 2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Dec. (City section) 5 Two contract workers were convicted of animal cruelty after being filmed playing ‘baseball’ with live turkeys. extracted from animaln. < as lemmas
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