Rigidity
[rɪ'dʒɪdətɪ] or [rɪ'dʒɪdəti]
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
(n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
(n.) Severity; rigor.
阿尔塔编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Stiffness, inflexibility, rigidness, want of pliability.[2]. Severity, rigor, harshness, strictness, austerity.[3]. Ungracefulness, want of ease.
艾伦整理
例句:
- Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It seemed to be of an unnatural color, and to have a strange rigidity about the features. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I could not refuse her requeSt. Her features bore the fixed rigidity of death when I entered her room. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The convertible rails, however, because of their rigidity, are more desirable than the convertible cushions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- She could feel his body gradually relaxing a little, losing its terrifying, unnatural rigidity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- She was a cousin,--an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It is supposed that greater rigidity is obtained by this means than by the suspension, and, like the suspension, great widths may be spanned without an under supporting frame work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The clamping-in is done at great pressure, and the resultant plate has great rigidity and strength. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Her frost fell away, her rigidity unbent; she grew smiling and pliant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- As Holmes drew the curtain I was aware, from some little rigidity and alertness of his attitude, that he was prepared for an emergency. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The essential point is that isolation makes for rigidity and formal institutionalizing of life, for static and selfish ideals within the group. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I made notes of my patient's pulse and temperature, tested the rigidity of his muscles, and examined his reflexes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
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