野蛮 (野蠻)
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Pinyin
Definition
野蛮 (野蠻)
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- barbarous
- uncivilized
Character Decomposition
Idioms (6)
哀鸿遍野
- 1 lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
- 2 starving people fill the land
坚壁清野
- 1 to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader
- 2 scorched earth policy
漫山遍野
- 1 lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom)
- 2 fig. as far as the eye can see
- 3 covering everything
- 4 omnipresent
狼子野心
- 1 ambition of wild wolves (idiom); rapacious designs
空室清野
- 1 empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy
- 2 scorched earth policy
Sample Sentences
嗨,听我说完,二来,咱们也不能拿着道德的旗帜到处发泄不满,道德卫士本身也是一种野蛮的行径。
Hey! Let me finish. Secondly, we can't go around venting our anger under the flag of morality. Being a social justice warrior is a savage way to behave in itself.
其实政府的出发点是好的,想为市民营造好的城市环境。可是下面一些执法者的做法太野蛮,太缺乏人性了。
Actually, the government's intentions are good. They want to create a good environment for the city's residents. The problem is that the methods of some of the law enforcers on the street are completely barbaric - it's inhuman.