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brutus

/broo-tuhs/US // ˈbru təs //UK // (ˈbruːtəs) //

残暴,残暴的人,残暴的,野蛮人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Marcus Jun·ius [joon-yuhs], /ˈdʒun yəs/, 85?–42 b.c., Roman provincial administrator: one of the assassins of Julius Caesar.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Fearful that he might yet stab them in the back, the British gave him the codename “Brutus.”

  • Rarely is it ever a cause as noble or as poetic as it was when Brutus stabbed Caesar.

  • This is like Brutus complaining that he wanted to be invited to Caesar's funeral—and in this case he actually was.

  • Brutus Cohn, traveling under the passport name of John Lamb, tracked the wheelchair down the sidewalk.

  • Brutus was getting well, but there would always be a scar on his shoulder, where the sharp-pointed shrub had entered the flesh.

  • The confusion in this direction is well illustrated by the name of the famous Marcus Junius Brutus.

  • There were mothers then, as well as in the times of the Gracchi; there were wives as noble as the wife of Marcus Brutus.

  • A gleam from the lantern showed it; the key-hole was old-fashioned as also described, and in a moment brutus had it open.

  • In short, in less than half an hour he returned with our old acquaintances, brutus and mephistopheles.