| 单词 | barbarous |
| 释义 | barbarous From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbarbarousbar‧bar‧ous /ˈbɑːbərəs $ ˈbɑːr-/ adjective1 CRUELextremely cruel in a way that is shocking SYN barbaricThe trade in exotic birds is barbarous.2 NATURALwild and not civilizeda savage barbarous people —barbarously adverbExamples from the Corpusbarbarous• In many cases, perhaps, it simply meant that clergy and people were equally barbarous.• He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.• It might well be barbarous on either side of the jeweled door.• Of course we live in less barbarous times.• When the Persian ambassadors arrived at Athens, demanding tribute in their barbarous tongue, my heart filled with fury.• Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival.Origin barbarous (1400-1500) Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros “foreign” |
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