beasts

英 [biːsts]

美 [bists]

n.  (尤指大型或凶猛、独特的)动物，兽; 性情凶残的人; 行为粗暴的人; 讨厌的人(或事物)
beast的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 兽；野兽
  You can refer to an animal as abeast, especially if it is a large, dangerous, or unusual one.
  1. ...the threats our ancestors faced from wild beasts.
     我们祖先面对的来自野兽的威胁
  2. ...a centaur: half man, half beast.
     半人半马怪物：一半人身，一半兽形
• N-COUNT 兽性的人；畜生；禽兽
  If you refer to a man as abeast, you mean that his behaviour, especially his sexual behaviour, is very violent and uncontrolled.
  1. ...a sex beast who subjected two sisters to a terrifying ordeal.
     使两姐妹遭受恐怖摧残的色魔
• N-COUNT; N-VOC 讨厌鬼；王八蛋
  If you call someone abeast, you think that they are behaving in a selfish, unkind, or unpleasant way.
  1. Bully! Hooligan! Beast! Let me go, let go!
     混蛋！流氓！王八蛋！放开我，放开！
• N-COUNT （含诙谐意）有特定性质的事物，性格特别的人
  You can usebeastto refer to something or someone in a light-hearted way, and to mention that they have a particular quality.
  1. ...that rare beast, a sports movie that isn't boring.
     这场体育电影还挺有意思，真难得

双语例句

• The boss made the workers toil like beasts of burden.
  老板把工人当牛马一样役使。
• Gods and men and beasts have birth.
  诞生了众神，人兽和精灵。
• Master steward, you filled my garden with savage beasts!
  管家，你把我的花园里放满了野兽！
• Man has conquered the jungle, but, as a result, many kinds of birds and beasts disappear forever.
  人类征服了丛林，可结果是许多种鸟类和野兽都绝迹了。
• I will require all slain beasts, and the souls of all slain men.
  我将索要所有杀戮的动物，和所有杀戮之人的灵魂。
• Long ago, birds and beasts, because there is a dispute, the war broke out.
  很久以前，鸟类和走兽，因为发生一点争执，就爆发了战争。
• We transform, as if by magic, from wives and mothers into horrid society murdering beasts.
  我们变了，像变戏法似的，从妻子、母亲的角色变成了恐怖的为害社会的畜牲。
• I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself.
  被野兽撕裂的，我没有带来给你，我都自己赔上；
• Hunting legends, for example, tell how men have been turned into beasts by magic.
  比如，狩猎的传说就讲述了魔法如何把人变成野兽的故事。
• Its movements imitated the motion of five kinds of birds and beasts.
  其招式就模仿了五种飞禽走兽的动作。