Callous

(verb.) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals.

(adj.) emotionally hardened; 'a callous indifference to suffering'; 'cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion' .

哈恩编辑

• Come, come, said Holmes, kindly, it is human to err, and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous criminal. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on an absent child? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• At best, it produces a temporary emotional glow; at worst, callous indifference to moralizing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Veiled for ever to the world's callous eye must be the transport of that moment. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides,--the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Callous indifference and explosions from strain alternate. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What a cold, callous epicure she was in all things! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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