2017年大英赛B类单选第34题：
The USgovernment has the right to regulate cruelty to animals.
关于cruelty查到有可数和不可数的两种状况，不了解该如何区别，期望能向大伙请教！
cruelty 一般用作抽象名词，不可数。如：
I have a deephorror of cruelty. 我对残暴的行为深恶痛绝。
There was a hintof cruelty in Brian’s smile. 布赖恩的微笑里流露出一丝残忍
The state has alaw against cruelty to animals. 该州有一项禁止虐待动物的法律。
Cruelty was quitealien to his nature. 残忍的行为与他的本性格格不入。
但若表示具体意义的“残暴的行为”“暴行”，则为可数名词，但一般用复数形式，表示“各种残暴的行为”。如：
The prisonersendured awful cruelties. 囚徒忍受着惨无人道的虐待。
She suffered manycruelties in her short life. 在短暂的一生中她遭到很多虑待。
Most otherEuropean nations were guilty of equal cruelties. 其他多数欧洲国家都犯有同样的暴行。
He is stillhaunted by the cruelties he witnessed during the war. 他到今天仍被战争期间所目睹的种种暴行折磨着。
The crueltiespractised by the fascists, during World War II were beyond description. 第二次世界大战期间法西斯分子所犯之种种暴行罄竹难书。
