savagery

英 ['s?v?d?ri] 美 ['s?v?d?ri]

n.野性；殘忍；野蠻狀態(tài)

GRE

?常見例句

(1) The people think he is a nobler savagery.

(2) He beat the dog with great savagery.

(3) All the people were frightened by such savagery.

(4) Savagery was the formative period of the human race.

(1) 人們認(rèn)為他是個(gè)高貴得野蠻人。

(2) 他極其殘忍地打那條狗。

(3) 殘忍得暴行使所有人心中都充滿了恐懼。

(4) 蒙昧階段是人類得形成階段。

?詞源

savagery: savage + ry(ery: n后綴)

savage

From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin salvaticus, alteration of Latin silvaticus (“wild"; literally, "of the woods”), from silva (“forest", "grove”).

?柯林斯詞典

1. [N-UNCOUNT 不可數(shù)名詞]兇惡行為；殘暴行徑；獸性 Savagery is extremely cruel and violent behaviour.

...the sheer savagery of war.

戰(zhàn)爭得殘酷無情