It is also true that are some truly cruel children (fortunately a very small minority). But it is never entirely clear whether such cruelty is innate or in response to harsh, abusive upbringing.

当然有些孩子确实是残酷的(幸好只是很小的一部分)，但是这样的残酷是与生俱来的还是由于严酷的、虐待的养育造成的永远都没有确切的答案。

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Charles Cadwallader, animal cruelty inspector, said the rabbit-throw was also cruel.

动物虐待检察官Charles Cadwallader说，扔兔子也是很残忍的。

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We condemn cruelty and cruel people.

我们谴责残忍行为和残忍的人。

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The best comedy is not just senselessly rebellious, coarse or cruel but uses its cruelty to make a further point.

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"Just as he was cruel to people, he deserved to be treated by them with cruelty, " he says.

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Britons abhor cruelty to animals, even when it is other animals that are being cruel, which means after the publication of the Burns report that the game is probably up for the nation's foxhunters.

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