beast

animal, beast, creature, brute, cattle

名词 beast:

1. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
   同义词：animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna
2. a cruelly rapacious person
   同义词：wolf, savage, brute, wildcat

1. Clumsy beast!
   笨拙的畜生！
2. Stop goading the poor beast!
   别再驱赶那可怜的动物了！
3. The lion is called the king of beasts.
   狮子号称百兽之王。

beast

n.（名词）

An animal other than a human being, especially a large four-footed mammal.
兽：动物而非人类，尤指体型大的四足哺乳动物
New England Southern U.S. A large domestic animal, especially a horse or bull.
【新英格兰】 【美国南部】 大牲畜：大的牲畜，尤指马或公牛
Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit:
兽性：与理智和精神相对立的动物性情：
例句：
.So far the beast in us has insisted upon having its full say.(William Dean Howells)
.我们身上的兽性一直顽强地要把握我们的言行.(威廉·迪安·豪厄尔斯)

A brutal, contemptible person.
野蛮、卑鄙的人

来源：
Middle English beste
中古英语 beste
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin bôstia
源自 拉丁语 bôstia