exceedingly brutal
残忍的
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many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards .许多早期抚养孩子的做法以现代标准看是很残忍的。
primitive; uncivilized
原始的;未开化的
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a remote and barbarous country .遥远而未开化的国家。
(especially of language)coarse and unrefined
(尤指语言)粗俗的,粗野的。
"late Middle English (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek