Rigor
['rɪgɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
(n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
(n.) Violence; force; fury.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inflexibility.[2]. Severity, austerity, harshness, sternness, asperity.[3]. Strictness, exactness.[4]. Inclemency.[5]. (Med.) Sudden coldness with shivering.
手打:波莱特
解釋/意思:
n. the same as Rigour: (med.) a sense of chilliness with contraction of the skin a preliminary symptom of many diseases.—n. Rī′gor-mor′tis the characteristic stiffening of the body caused by the contraction of the muscles after death.
手打:利
例句/造句/用法:
- He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The spending of three and four arduous nights a week in these trenches by Mr. Edison and his associates suggests the rigor of the later European warfare. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of course you will find plenty of socialists who see other issues and who smile a bit at the rigors of economic determinism. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Cod liver oil is an excellent food medicine, and if taken in winter serves to warm the body and to protect it against the rigors of cold weather. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
整理:谢尔登