Someone or something that is savage is extremely cruel, violent, and uncontrolled.
This was a savage attack on a defenceless young girl.
这是对一个手无缚鸡之力的小姑娘的野蛮袭击。
the savage wave of violence that swept the country in November 1987.
1987年11月席卷了该国的野蛮暴力浪潮。
savages
If you refer to people as savages, you dislike them because you think that they do not have an advanced society and are violent.
their conviction that the area was a frozen desert peopled with uncouth savages.
他们深信该地区是一片冰冷的沙漠,居住着尚未开化的野蛮人。
savages , savaging , savaged
If someone is savaged by a dog or other animal, the animal attacks them violently.
The animal then turned on him and he was savaged to death.
那只猛兽继而扑向他,将他攻击至死。