► 形容動詞
酷 [(1)こく] meaning: cruel rank: 4
☆ 彼はなんて酷な仕打ちをするんだろう ⇨ What a cruel treatment he dishes out
More examples:
- この製品は酷使に耐える ⇨ This product will stand up to abuses
- インフルエンザなど大した事がないと高を括っていたら酷い目に遭った (たかをくくって) ⇨ I hadn’t taken the flu seriously and had a torrid time
- このホテルは飛行機の騒音が酷い ⇨ The noise of airplanes are horrible in this hotel
- 彼の怪我は酷すぎて助からなかった ⇨ His injury was too severe and he didn’t survive
- 昨夜は酷い嵐だった ⇨ There as a bad storm last night
- 人間の残酷さを浮き彫りにした映画 ⇨ A movie that highlighted the cruel nature of humans
- 冷酷な独裁者 ⇨ A cruel dictator
- 損害は恐れていたほど酷くはなかった ⇨ The damage was not as bad as I had feared
- 彼等は苛酷な労働を強いられた ⇨ They were forced into cruelly hard labor
- 都心は酷く渋滞している ⇨ The traffic is very slow in the city center
- 彼は酷い風邪で寝込んでいる ⇨ He got a bad cold and is staying in bed
- あー、酷い目に遭った ⇨ Wow, I experienced an ordeal, that was an ordeal
- 動物にこんな酷い事をする人間が何故いるのが理解出来ない ⇨ I cannot fathom why there are people who do such cruel things to animals
- 彼等の製品は私達の製品に酷似している ⇨ Their product suspiciously similar to our product
- 彼の怪我は酷すぎて為す術もなかった (なすすべ) ⇨ His injuries were so bad there was no way to treat them, nothing you could do