a living organism characterized by voluntary movement同义词:animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna
a cruelly rapacious person同义词:wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
例句
Clumsy beast!笨拙的畜生!
Stop goading the poor beast!别再驱赶那可怜的动物了!
The lion is called the king of beasts.狮子号称百兽之王。
详细解释
beast n.(名词) An animal other than a human being, especially a large four-footed mammal.兽:动物而非人类,尤指体型大的四足哺乳动物New EnglandSouthern U.S. A large domestic animal, especially a horse or bull.【新英格兰】【美国南部】 大牲畜:大的牲畜,尤指马或公牛Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit:兽性:与理智和精神相对立的动物性情:例句:.So far the beast in us has insisted upon having its full say.(William Dean Howells).我们身上的兽性一直顽强地要把握我们的言行.(威廉·迪安·豪厄尔斯) A brutal, contemptible person.野蛮、卑鄙的人 来源:Middle English beste 中古英语 beste from Old French 源自 古法语 from Latin bôstia 源自 拉丁语 bôstia