Savagery

(n.) The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.

(n.) An act of cruelty; barbarity.

(n.) Wild growth, as of plants.

伊莎贝拉录入

• So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yet in meaning what has been accomplished measures just the difference of civilization from savagery. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Why does a savage group perpetuate savagery, and a civilized group civilization? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Dirt, degradation and savagery are Endor's specialty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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