aggressive and violent; causing great harm synonym brutal凶恶的;凶残的;损害严重的 savage dogs 恶狗 She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’. 她遭受袭击而身受重伤,警方称这是一次 “野蛮的袭击”。 savage public spending cuts 拼命削减公共开支
Extra ExamplesPolice have over 20 new leads in the hunt for the savage killer of two young boys. 警方在追捕杀害两名年轻男孩的野蛮杀手方面有20多条新线索。 Resistance provoked savage reprisals from the authorities. 抵抗激起了当局的野蛮报复。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
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- particularly
- very
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involving very strong criticism 猛烈抨击的 - [only before noun] (old-fashioned, taboo)
an offensive way of referring to groups of people or customs that are considered to be simple and not highly developed synonym primitive蒙昧的;未开化的;野蛮的 a savage tribe 野蛮部落
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.