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savage

adjective
🔊/ˈsævɪdʒ/
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  1. aggressive and violent; causing great harm凶恶的；凶残的；损害严重的 synonym brutal
    • savage dogs恶狗
    • She had been badly hurt in what police described as ‘a savage attack’.她遭受袭击而身受重伤，警方称这是一次 “野蛮的袭击”。🔊🔊
    • savage public spending cuts拼命削减公共开支
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    • Police have over 20 new leads in the hunt for the savage killer of two young boys.警方在寻找两个年轻男孩的野蛮杀手时有20多个新线索。
    • Resistance provoked savage reprisals from the authorities.抵抗运动引起了当局的野蛮报复。
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  2. involving very strong criticism猛烈抨击的
    • The article was a savage attack on the government's record.文章对政府的所作所为进行了猛烈的抨击。🔊🔊
  3. [only before noun] (old-fashioned, taboo) an offensive way of referring to groups of people or customs that are considered to be simple and not highly developed蒙昧的；未开化的；野蛮的 synonym primitive
    • a savage tribe野蛮部落
    4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

savage

noun
🔊/ˈsævɪdʒ/
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  1. (old-fashioned, taboo) an offensive word for somebody who belongs to a people that is simple and not developed野蛮人；未开化的人
    • the development of the human race from primitive savages人类走出蒙昧的演进过程
    see also noble savage
  2. a cruel and violent person凶狠残暴的人
    • He described the attack as the work of savages.他把这次袭击称为野蛮行径。🔊🔊
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.

savage

verb
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[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they savage
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he / she / it savages
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past simple savaged
🔊/ˈsævɪdʒd/
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past participle savaged
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-ing form savaging
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  1. (of an animal动物) to attack somebody violently, causing serious injury凶狠地攻击（或伤害）；残害
    • be savaged (by something) She was savaged to death by a bear.她遭熊袭击而丧命。🔊🔊
  2. (formal) to criticize somebody/something severely猛烈批评；激烈抨击
    • be savaged (by somebody) Her latest novel has been savaged by the critics.她最近的一部小说受到评论家的猛烈批评。🔊🔊
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.