Severity
[sɪ'verɪtɪ] or [sə'vɛrəti]
解释:
(noun.) excessive sternness; 'severity of character'; 'the harshness of his punishment was inhuman'; 'the rigors of boot camp'.
布雷特整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being severe.
(n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
(n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.
(n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
(n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Sternness, harshness, rigor, austerity, acrimony.[2]. Strictness, exactness, accuracy.[3]. Simplicity, plainness, conciseness.[4]. Sharpness, keenness, causticity.[5]. Extremity, afflictiveness, violence.
编辑:罗达
例句:
- The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Don't say that, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, almost with severity, 'because that is very unkind to Mrs. Bounderby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- It was a little too bad, Fred began to think, that he should be kept in the traces with more severity than if he had been a clergyman. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mr. Casaubon had no second attack of equal severity with the first, and in a few days began to recover his usual condition. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- But, as Gibbon points out, our information as to its severity is of very doubtful value. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The old housekeeper, with a gracious severity of deportment, waves her hand towards the great staircase. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But you'll find, when you come to manage, that there's no getting along without severity,--they are so bad, so deceitful, so lazy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I won't take one of the others,' said Bella, tying the knots of the bundle very tight, in the severity of her resolution. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- There was one advantage, and only one that I know of, in Mr. Creakle's severity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- To break him in by severity would be a useless attempt; to win him by flattery would be an effort worse than useless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- That season was now gone; and winter had set in with sudden and unusual severity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- We who are good-natured and hate severity make up our minds to a good deal of inconvenience. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was a time of exhaustion and reaction after the severities of the Jacobite republic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
校对:马蒂