Parents of children age ten to seventeen were asked whether their child bullies or is cruel or mean to others.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Somebody rose and asked him if he had considered putting the elements in alphabetical order. They were very cruel.

有人起来问他,是否考虑过将这些元素,按字母顺序排列，他们非常冷酷。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I had made him know that I felt he was cruel and I had done it without his punishing me.

同时，我让他感到了自己的残忍,对此他无能为力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

And this is line 679: Why should you be so cruel to yourself, And to those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?

在第679行：，你为什么要对自己那么残忍，对于大自然赋予我们的四肢,只文雅的使用和温和的对待佳肴？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For example, the reporter Nellie Bly was working for him when she investigated the cruel treatment of patients at a mental hospital.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The notion of "an eye for an eye" is usually cited or held up as typical of the harsh and cruel standards of the vengeful Old Testament God.

以眼还眼“的概念常被引用，被推崇为带有报复,心理的《旧约》上帝所制定的典型标准，严酷而残忍。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They were very cruel. I thought,perhaps this beast can be taught to be my friend...

VOA: special.2010.07.17

It requires, for Machiavelli, the founding of regimes requires that kind of cold and cruel calculation.

对马奇亚维利而言，那需要政体的创建,需要那种冷酷与残忍的算计。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The Society's plan ended a cruel life of slavery for many negroes.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And by the time I'm 500,I become completely self-absorbed and I'm sort of a vicious,cruel,vile person.

00岁的时候，我变得完全自私,我变得邪恶，残酷和卑鄙。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

This all might seem very cruel but from a genetic standpoint it makes sense.

这可能看起来很残酷,但从基因角度行得通。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Later,Helen learned that nature could be cruel as well as beautiful.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He draws a contrast between the men who give just decisions to strangers and to natives, and who do not depart from what is just, and those who practice violence and cruel deeds.

他对比了,那些即便在面对异乡人和不谙世事者,仍秉持正义给予公正判断的人,和那些残酷暴戾恶果累累的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Many animal-protection groups and people worldwide have denounced finning as cruel.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

She wanted to show how cruel slavery was.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

It's cruel.

真残忍。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Cold-blooded people act in cruel ways.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

"There are U.S.troops who are incredibly crass and cruel in their treatment of citizens and journalists as well."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The report concluded that this described activity "constitutes torture" and that it also constitutes "cruel,inhumane and degrading treatment."

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Animal welfare activists argue that subjecting chimpanzees to painful,and often lethal, experiments is cruel and inhumane.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Iran's president also defended statements he made last Monday before a U.N.conference in which he called Israel the most cruel and racist regime in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, public support will not last indefinitely, but the cruel irony is to succeed, we need patience,discipline, resolve and time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Instead, he kept youthis fragile little human. It's cruel, really.

VOA: standard.other

But,contemporary forms of slavery are often as cruel and dehumanizing.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In addition,the nine justices will also hear arguments about whether sentencing juveniles to life in prison without paroles for crimes other than murder violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01