英:['bestɪəlɪ]
美:['bestɪrlɪ]
英:['bestɪəlɪ]
美:['bestɪrlɪ]
adjective
of or relating to beasts
grotesque combinations of human and bestial forms
resembling a beast
a bestial shape
lacking intelligence or reason
… the bestial man has no sense of right and wrong …—J. E. Hankins
marked by base (see base entry 3 sense 1a) or inhuman instincts or desires : brutal … a scene of bestial intoxication …—Herman Melville
bestial violence
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin bestialis, from bestia beast
The first known use of bestial was in the 14th century
bibnoun
a cloth or plastic shield tied under a child's chin to protect the clothes
the upper part of an apron or of overalls
bibnoun
a cloth or plastic shield tied under a child's chin to protect the clothes
the upper part of an apron or of overalls
bewitchverb
to put under a spell
to attract or delight as if by magic
bewilderverb
to confuse especially with a great many things to worry about
better1 of 4adjective
improved in health
of higher quality
better2 of 4adverb
in a more excellent manner
to a higher or greater degree
knows the story better than I do
more entry 2
better than an hour's drive to the lake
better3 of 4noun
a better thing or state
a change for the better
a superior especially in merit or rank
be respectful of your betters
advantage sense 1
get the better of someone
better4 of 4verb
to make better
to be or do better than
bethelnoun
a place of worship especially for sailors
Betelgeusenoun
a red giant star in Orion that changes in brightness
bestowverb
to present as a gift
bestienoun
best friend
bestialadjective
resembling a beast
having or showing qualities like those of a beast : brutal, inhuman
1 It’s also built to meet Appendix K FIA regulations for competition, with a period-correct 5.3-liter V-8 that makes appropriately bestial noises.
2 He stood opposite her, his hands on the table as he leaned toward her, grinning at her, brutally and bestially, and pausing so as to prolong his enjoyment of her predicament.
3 Her influence was still abroad, and in his flesh Carteret shrewdly suffered it; yet neither basely nor bestially, being clean of life and of spirit.
4 She, like her husband, was shy, and, furthermore, ill, and furthermore, so bestially stupid that she could not grasp what was happening.
5 The sparseness of the fossil record has confounded attempts to understand the ways that prehistoric mammals gave birth and brought up their babies, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of our broader bestial family’s history.
6 The bestial prelude to love comes in many (weird, wild, even mildly horrifying) forms.
7 "Well, this state of things that you find admirable, seems to me bestially fanatical, repugnantly immoral, repulsively vile."
8 He is a thief by instinct, a murderer by heredity and training, and frankly and bestially immoral by all three.
9 That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that— rose against me like a towering blasphemy.
10 Recognizing a fellow-victim, he bestially roars, “Rejoice! The broken are the more evolved! Rejoice!”
11 Reacting on Twitter, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that “under German occupation there was no ‘Polish régime’” and that “both the Poles and Jews were bestially murdered by the Germans.”
12 Once in the summer of 1918 a group of Italians arrived who had been, in the doctor's words, "bestially maltreated at Zala-Egerseg by the Magyars."
13 Returning, he saw Link standing close to the bunk, smiling bestially at the upturned face.
14 There we slept in the hall before the contented faces of some fine French pictures—or the majority of them,—the rest were bestially slashed.
15 Students were led to administer what they thought were "deadly" electric shocks to their colleagues or to treat them bestially in simulated prisons.
16 The Beast taps into man’s bestial nature, inviting visitors through Jack the Ripper’s London, the Werewolf Forest and a maze in a medieval castle that defies visitors to find a way out.
17 They were political in nature, often in verse, insulting in treatment, and mixed with a crass obscenity at which the dismal multitude laughed bestially.
18 Yet when we look at the Eskimos from another point of view we find them horribly and bestially unaesthetic.
19 The man threw himself like a wild beast beside the sledge, caught the woman’s face in his hands and kissed her bestially upon the helpless lips.
20 Blood was trickling thinly from his lips; he spat bestially over Trevison’s shoulder in a clinch, and tried to sweep the latter from his feet.
1 残酷
hard sick harsh cruel savage grim inhuman gory merciless fiendish unfeeling hellacious unmerciful truculent swinish tyrannic bitterly savagely hellishly tyrannically truculently tyrannously cruelty inhumanity barbarity truculence savageness inhumanness truculency bestialize have a heart of stone