贫穷是一头残忍的野兽。

Poverty is a cruel wild animal.

youdao

他遭到教徒的反抗，手下也认为他“更像残忍的野兽，而非全能的神”。

Religion sometimes revolted him and his fellow men seemed to him "more like the image of a brute beast than of that omnipotent deity".

youdao

世界上最残忍的不是野兽，不是刽子手，而是时间；因为时间不等人，时间不留情。

The world is not the most cruel beast, not the executioner, but time; because time waits for no time without mercy.

youdao