| 释义 | 
		barbaritybar‧bar‧i‧ty /bɑːˈbærəti $ bɑːr-/ noun (plural barbarities) [countable, uncountable]    - the barbarity of the Nazis
 
 - But I do recognise barbarity and inhumanity when I see them.
 - It allows recovery before the barbarity, the social invasion, of the family.
 - It has often been asked how barbarity could triumph so quickly in such a high culture.
 - Senior civil servants and ministers must themselves take initiatives to put right the current barbarities.
 - The character of the Thief is of unrelieved grossness and barbarity, and Michael Gambon turns in a resolutely one-dimensional performance.
 - The time may well be approaching when meat eating is generally regarded as a sign of barbarity, rather than of civilisation.
 - This is a story of continuing progress, from the barbarity of slavery to the enlightenment of the contemporary race relations industry.
 - Untold are the reaches of his barbarities, uncounted the number of his treacheries, beyond belief the depravity of his practices.
 
    a very cruel act:   the medieval barbarity of putting people in prison for debt  |