brute
 noun or adjective
 animal
EN He was a sarcastic brute, Andrew said.
GL Era un animal sarcástico, dicía Andrew.
 Fonte: CAR (44)
bruto
EN Time was to sin in secrecy, to indulge in that sloth and pride, to covet the unlawful, to yield to the promptings of your lower nature, to live like the beasts of the field, nay worse than the beasts of the field, for they, at least, are but brutes and have no reason to guide them: time was, but time shall be no more.
GL Houbo tempo para pecar en secreto, para compracerse na preguiza e no arruallo, para desexar o ilícito, para renderse ás urxencias dos baixos instintos, para vivir como as bestas do campo, non, peor que as bestas do campo porque estas, ao menos, non son máis que brutos e carecen de razón que as guíe: houbo tempo, pero xa non haberá máis.
Fonte: RET (2499)
besta
EN For a time, which seemed so long that the world grew gray with age and sin, and the haunted forest, having fulfilled its purpose in this monstrous culmination of its terrors, vanished out of his consciousness with all its sights and sounds, the apparition stood within a pace, regarding him with the mindless malevolence of a wild brute; then thrust its hands forward and sprang upon him with appalling ferocity!
GL Durante un momento, que de tan longo pareceu que o mundo se tornara gris de vello e polos pecados, e que a fraga enmeigada, acadado o seu propósito nesta monstruosa sucesión dos seus terrores, se esvaecera da súa consciencia con todas as súas imaxes e sons, a aparición permaneceu a menos de un paso de distancia, xulgándoo coa malevolencia irracional dunha besta salvaxe; entón, ¡estendeu as mans cara adiante e saltou sobre el cunha ferocidade desacougante!
Fonte: HAL (112)
adjective
brutal
EN On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was --
GL No outro lado da illa, bañada ás doce polas miraxes, defendida polo escudo da tranquila lagoa, podíase soñar co rescate; pero aquí, enfrontado coa brutal teimosía do océano, cos quilómetros de separación, un quedaba abouxado, ou sen esperanza, ou condenado, ou...
Fonte: SEN (3252)
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