"Badger," said the Rat, "_I_feel like a brute; I wonder what YOU feel like?"
“班杰，”水鼠兰特说，“我觉得自己像个没良心的野兽；我想知道你是什么感觉？”
The person who did this is an animal, a brute.
干这种事的人是畜生，是野兽。
His father was a drunken brute.
他父亲是个蛮横的醉鬼。
This time, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), dragged from a wasteful retirement, takes on a brute named Bane (Tom Hardy), who is masked and barely comprehensible.
The core issue is whether those decisions are going to be dictated by the brute force of politics (NICE) or by prices (a private insurance system).