Stern
[stɜːn] or [stɝn]
解释:
(noun.) the rear part of a ship.
(noun.) United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920).
(adj.) severe and unremitting in making demands; 'an exacting instructor'; 'a stern disciplinarian'; 'strict standards' .
手打:奥利--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The black tern.
(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
手打:露西娅
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Forbidding, austere, severe, rigid.[2]. Harsh, cruel, bitter, rigorous, strict, hard, unrelenting, inflexible, uncompromising.
n. Hinder part (of a vessel).
校对:路易丝
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Severe, austere, rigid, harsh, strict, rigorous, unrelenting, unyielding,forbidding
ANT:Lenient, genial, kindly, easy, flexible, encouraging
整理:保罗
解释:
adj. severe of countenance manner or feeling: austere: harsh: unrelenting: steadfast.—adv. Stern′ly.—n. Stern′ness.
n. the hind-part of a vessel: the rump or tail of an animal.—v.t. to back a boat to row backward.—ns. Stern′age (Shak.) the steerage or stern of a ship; Stern′board backward motion of a ship: loss of way in tacking; Stern′-chase a chase in which one ship follows directly in the wake of another; Stern′-chās′er a cannon in the stern of a ship.—adj. Sterned having a stern of a specified kind.—ns. Stern′-fast a rope or chain for making fast a ship's stern to a wharf &c.; Stern′-frame the sternpost transoms and fashion-pieces of a ship's stern.—adj. Stern′most farthest astern.—ns. Stern′port a port or opening in the stern of a ship; Stern′post the aftermost timber of a ship which supports the rudder; Stern′sheets the part of a boat between the stern and the rowers; Stern′son the hinder extremity of a ship's keelson to which the sternpost is bolted; Stern′way the backward motion of a vessel; Stern′-wheel′er (U.S.) a small vessel with one large paddle-wheel at the stern.
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例句:
- Jaelthe stern woman; sat apart, relenting somewhat over her captive; but more prone to dwell on the faithful expectation of Heber coming home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He cleared his vision with his sleeve, and the melting mood over, a very stern one followed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- If I do--Well, said madame, drawing a breath and nodding her head with a stern kind of coquetry, I'll use it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The boat had a single paddle wheel in the middle near the stern, and was intended only for canal use, in the place of horses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- I went back to the stern and showed her how to hold the oar. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- She was little changed; something sterner, something more robust--but she was my godmother: still the distinct vision of Mrs. Bretton. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She saw nothing, but her son a little paler, a little sterner than usual. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Nor did he neglect the sterner duties of life while following the bent of his inclination toward the solving of the mystery of his library. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I need a sterner dream. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It is usually so, except with the sternest of men. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- To this woman he gave Moore in charge, with the sternest injunctions respecting the responsibility laid on her shoulders. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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