n. 训练, 纪律

vt. 训练, 惩罚

[法] 纪律, 风纪, 惩戒

Discipline \Dis`ci*pline\, n. [F. discipline, L. disciplina,
from discipulus. See {Disciple}.]
1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education;
development of the faculties by instruction and exercise;
training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of
humanity. --Bacon.

Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the
substitution of good ones, especially those of
order, regularity, and obedience. --C. J. Smith.

2. Training to act in accordance with established rules;
accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art. --Dryden.

3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control;
habit of obedience.

The most perfect, who have their passions in the
best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on
their guard. --Rogers.

4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by
means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to
educate us. --Macaulay.

5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of
correction and training.

Giving her the discipline of the strap. --Addison.

6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
--Bp. Wilkins.

7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against
one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or
penal action toward a church member.

8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal
punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a
penitential scourge.

9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the
Romish or Anglican discipline.

Syn: Education; instruction; training; culture; correction;
chastisement; punishment.


Discipline \Dis"ci*pline\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disciplined}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Disciplining}.] [Cf. LL. disciplinarian to
flog, fr. L. disciplina discipline, and F. discipliner to
discipline.]
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to
train.

2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring
under control so as to act systematically; to train to act
together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form
a habit of obedience in; to drill.

Ill armed, and worse disciplined. --Clarendon.

His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.
--Macaulay.

3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise;
to correct.

Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? --Shak.

4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Syn: To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate;
correct; chasten; chastise; punish.