cruel

1. 谐音“酷吏哦，酷戮哦”-----残酷地杀戮哦。
2. 谐音“酷奴哦”-----残酷地奴役哦。
3. 谐音“可戮哦、渴戮哦”-----渴望杀戮哦。

cruel 残酷的

来自crude，粗糙的。

cruel

cruel: [13] Aptly, cruelty and crudeness are closely linked etymologically. Cruel comes via Old French cruel from Latin crūdēlis, a relative of Latin crūdus (which actually meant ‘cruel’ as well as ‘raw’ and ‘bloody’). Both come ultimately from an Indo-European base which also produced English raw, Greek kréas ‘flesh’ (whence English creosote and pancreas), and Old Slavic kruvi ‘blood’. (Crude is a 14thcentury borrowing direct from Latin.)
=> creosote, crude, pancreas, raw

cruel (adj.)

early 13c., from Old French cruel (12c.), earlier crudel, from Latin crudelis "rude, unfeeling; cruel, hard-hearted," related to crudus "rough, raw, bloody" (see crude). Related: Cruelly. Latin medial -d- began to disappear 10c. in French: compare chance/cadentia, cheoir/cadere, joyeux/gaudiosus, juif/judaeus, moyen/medianus, obéir/obedire, séance/sedentia.

1. He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.

他仍然因出身低微而被人无情嘲笑。

2. These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners bending their legs.

这些残酷的刑具是用来阻止犯人弯腿的。

3. Marion's father counter-attacked by saying that Blaze's claims were cruel and untrue.

玛丽昂的父亲反击说布拉兹的说法冷酷无情，根本是在撒谎。

4. The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.

被拘留者的关押环境常常恶劣严酷、很不人道。

5. The wind was not as sharp and cruel as it had been.

风不像刚才那么凛冽和凶猛了。

【brutal, ruthless, savage, fierce, inhuman, barbarous, cruel】
这组词都有“残忍的”的意思，其区别是：
brutal: 指极端的残忍，强调无情或缺乏同情心，含不择手段的意味。
ruthless: 与cruel同义。强调为达到目的，对别人的痛苦毫无怜悯之心。
savage: 指缺乏文明人应有的教养，尤指在动怒或冲动时表现出的粗野蛮横，含野蛮意味。
fierce: 指天性凶恶，令人害怕。
inhuman: 着重缺乏同情心、仁爱等人类特有的良好的品质。
barbarous: 专指只有原始或未开化的人才会有的残忍行为。
cruel: 一般用词，指行动或态度的残忍。