Harshness的意思|Harshness的解释-里氏词典

harshness ['hɑ:ʃnis]

n. 粗糙事物, 刺耳, 严肃

He is a judge of harshness.
他是个严厉的法官。
I can't bear the harshness of the noise.
我受不了这些刺耳的噪音。
His harshness is forgivable.
他很严厉, 但情有可原.

harshness

[ noun ]

the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

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the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses

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the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

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excessive sternness

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severity of character

the harshness of his punishment was inhuman

the rigors of boot camp

Harshness \Harsh"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being harsh.

O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
And he's composed of harshness. --Shak.

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. --Pope.

Syn: Acrimony; roughness; sternness; asperity; tartness. See
{Acrimony}.

There is something extraordinarily luscious about her style - the very pliant feet, the curvaceousness of the slightly hyperextended legs, the lack of harshness - and this is combined with a very sweet kind of innocence.
The Delors Report's answer to the regional harshness of an imposed single currency is to propose handing out grants to underprivileged regions.
Despite his harshness with Mr. Icahn's counsel during the proceedings, Judge Schwartzberg said in summing up, "The numbers seem to be against Mr. Icahn.
"We are obviously very disappointed by the harshness of the sentence," Ferraro said, noting that other defendants in Vermont drug cases have received lighter penalties.
The new Job Seekers' allowance, an item in the same speech, moves Britain a step further towards US-style workfare. Whatever Labour may say about harshness, these measures are in the spirit of the recent report of the left's social justice commission.
Receiving the warm greetings of supporters at a reception the day before taking office, Quayle recalled the harshness of the campaign criticism by quoting Winston Churchill.
No mellow family story, the harshness of the lives tangled up in this Simon drama is deep and cutting.
The Palestine Liberation Organization called the election result "a fatal blow for the peace process," and said it would lead to "more harshness, hatred and terrorism" toward Palestinians.
Moss said later he used those words to illustrate the "harshness" of Hatch's earlier "inflammatory language." "It was rash.
The security clampdown raised severe criticism from Amnesty International and other human rights groups for what they considered its unnecessary harshness.
Robertson wrote that the "seemingly undue harshness" of the sentence "for Ashley's great sardine caper is evidenced" by comments from prosecutors that they would not oppose a lighter sentence.
"For one-and-a-half months a period of harshness, of great casualties, of great loss of lives has gone through this country. We want to heal these wounds to soothe anybody's feelings wherever they are hurt," Rana said.
Symbolic foods are eaten, including bitter herbs to remind Jews of the harshness of their enslavement and haroset, a brick-colored mixture of apples, nuts and wine to recall the bricks laid by Jewish slaves.
Some Dukakis advisers admit the harshness of Bush's attacks caught them unprepared.
And marketing men discuss how to tout a car's low NVH, which is car talk for noise, vibration and harshness.
But Forsythe's view of dance is of unrelenting, undifferentiated physical stress, of harshness and deformation, of dynamics unleashed but aimless.
Hitler sometimes talked eloquently of peace and played on British guilt about the harshness of Versailles.
"This is much needed," said former Attorney General Griffin Bell, vice chairman of the panel. "It takes a harshness out of the law and makes the law much more effective.

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