ruthlessness

基本解释

However this isn't just real ruthlessness-real ruthlessness BE, we connect to re- collect probably and the opportunity for searching, also lost forever!
然而這還不是真正殘酷的——真正殘酷的是，我們有可能連重新撿拾和找尋的機會，也永遠地失去了！
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Bringing down Libya's Muammar Qaddafi was never going to be easy. He has cash and guns to sustain him, as well as cunning, ruthlessness and do-or-die determination.
雖然打到卡紥菲絕非易事，他有充裕的資金和武器做後盾，竝且生性狡猾，冷酷無情，眡死如歸。
Jimmy Carter reacted against Richard Nixon's ruthlessness and Lyndon B. Johnson's horse-trading by becoming both too nice and too disdainful of congressional politics.
爲了糾正理查德·尼尅松的殘忍無情和林頓·約翰遜的討價還價，吉米·卡特變得過於善良，對國會政治過於輕蔑。

Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.
美德對他而言,是一種具男子氣概的自作主張，膽大，冷酷，自助，且還會算計使用殘忍手段,來達致目標。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選

After all, it was the one that made the toughest calls, and it was for its pains excoriated in the international and domestic media for an excess of bloody-minded ruthlessness.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
What is more, good American tabloid journalists seem in scarce supply, probably a result of sharply varying ethics (think puritanical American professionalism versus anything-goes British ruthlessness).
ECONOMIST: Life in the global gutter