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brute

/broot/US // brut //UK // (bruːt) //

野蛮人,蛮人,蛮横的人,畜生

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a nonhuman creature; beast.
    • : a brutal, insensitive, or crude person.
    • : the animal qualities, desires, etc., of humankind: Father felt that rough games brought out the brute in us.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : animal; not human.
    • : not characterized by intelligence or reason; irrational.
    • : characteristic of animals; of brutal character or quality.
    • : savage; cruel: brute force.
    • : carnal; sensual.

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Examples

  • Finally, Apple blocked hackers from trying “brute force” attacks over and over in rapid succession.

  • That wasn’t a prohibitively large number, and so some solvers, like Siddhartha Srivastava of Patna, India, powered forth with computational brute force to find the unique solution.

  • If you don’t own one or just want a bit more of a workout, then a wooden spoon and brute force will do the trick.

  • Sinovac’s inactivated vaccine relies on a brute-force technology that has been around for hundreds of years.

  • Only Cleveland’s Nick Chubb was better at extending plays with brute force.

  • Brute is the story of Mac and Jesse, two disenfranchised teens who turn to robbing houses as a form of recreation and quick cash.

  • They knew that as much as they tried to make up for it with brute force, their cultural power was nil.

  • Police ignored this advice and instead used brute force to remove Saylor.

  • “It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.

  • And on Game of Thrones, it's never wise to bet on good intentions over brute force.

  • He has become by brute force of circumstances a sort of collectivist, puzzled only as to how much of a collectivist to be.

  • The eyes of the huge brute opened instantly, and he had half risen before the loud report of the gun rang through the thicket.

  • Saying this he advanced towards the brute, but again the powerful hand of Mafuta seized him.

  • He recovered himself, however, in a moment, and fired—sending a ball into the brute which just touched the brain and stunned it.

  • It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.