English Dictionary

cruelty

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɹuː(ə)lti/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering. / (countable) A cruel act.

日本語の意味

残酷さ：苦しみや苦痛を加えることに対して冷淡である状態、あるいは苦しみを与える行為における喜びや無関心さを表す。 / 残虐な行為：具体的に残酷な行為そのものを指す。

She could not ignore the cruelty in the way they treated the stray dogs.

彼女は野良犬たちを扱う彼らの残酷さを無視できなかった。

意味（1）

(uncountable) An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.

Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.

意味（2）

(countable) A cruel act.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

cruelties （ plural ）