To hit a weaker person is a sign of cruelty.

殴打比自己弱的人是一种残忍的表现。

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It was the most extreme example of cruelty to animals I had ever seen.

这是我见过的最严重的虐待动物的事例。

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Protestant countries disapprove of cruelty to animals.

新教徒国家中反对虐待动物。

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Spain called home the military commander accused of cruelty.

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Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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He may occasionally hurt others but this is not done out of deliberate cruelty.

他有时可能会刺伤他人,但这仅会是慎思后的恶毒话语。

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Zandt offered the example of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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Milllie's mother, Rachael Martin, from Kesh, is accused of cruelty and allowing the infant's death.

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Its current show, Theatre of Cruelty, is based on the aesthetics of Antonin Artaud, a French playwright.

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