barbaric

barbaric
adjective
  1. savagely cruel
    野蛮的;残暴的
    he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war.
    他以战争的名义实施了暴行。
  2. primitive; unsophisticated
    原始的,单纯的
    the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed.
    他在已被毁灭的文明里所发现的原始辉煌。
    ■uncivilized and uncultured
    未开化的,无文化的
派生
barbarically
adverb
语源
  1. late Middle English (as a noun in the sense 'a barbarian'): from Old French barbarique, via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros 'foreign' (especially with reference to speech)
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