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callous

/'kælәs/ uk  词频 #16457

托福 TOEFL英语专业八级

callous 是什么意思

中文释义
a. 麻木的, 无情的, 坚硬的, 硬皮的, 起老茧的
vt. 使生茧, 使变硬
英文释义
v. make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
s. emotionally hardened

callous 的真实例句

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Three men have been found guilty of raping a woman on Brighton beach in a "cynical, predatory and callous attack".

—— Three men guilty of 'callous' Brighton beach rape

Hall was, Smith said, a “callous, calculating sexual predator”.

—— Man who raped young men and deliberately gave them HIV jailed for life

However callous his words are, he radiates turbulent emotion: whenever someone steps close to him, a Geiger counter starts crackling, as if intimacy itself had a half-life.

—— Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”

A “callous, calculating sexual predator” who raped and deliberately infected young, vulnerable men with HIV has been jailed for life and told he must serve at least 23 years.

—— Man who raped young men and deliberately gave them HIV jailed for life

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