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 rigid ['ridʒid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 坚硬的, 刚性的, 严格的, 精密的, 刻板的

  1. She was rigid with fear.
    她害怕得全身僵住了。
  2. He's very rigid in his ideas.
    他的想法非常固执。


rigid
[ adj ]
  1. designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

    2. <adj.all>
  2. incapable of or resistant to bending

    3. <adj.all>
    a rigid strip of metal
    a table made of rigid plastic
    a palace guardsman stiff as a poker
    stiff hair
    a stiff neck
  3. incapable of compromise or flexibility

    4. <adj.all>
  4. incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

    5. <adj.all>
    a rigid disciplinarian
    an inflexible law
    an unbending will to dominate
  5. fixed and unmoving

    6. <adj.all>
    with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare
    his bearded face already has a set hollow look
    a face rigid with pain


Rigid \Rig"id\, a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb:
cf. F. rigide. Cf. {Rigor}. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

Upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears. --Milton.

2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict;
as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid sentence.

The more rigid order of principles in religion and
government. --Hawthorne.

Syn: Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact;
severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.

  1. The rigid market controls destroyed incentives and the ability of China's once-thriving markets to transmit information freely via prices.
  2. Many news directors question the objectivity of a corporate-produced video and claim to have rigid policies against using them.
  3. But it could gain assent to essentially flat wages through to 1996. To lock the unions into such restraint the government will probably have to jettison part of its planned reform of the overtly rigid labour laws.
  4. But there is real danger in arguments for a rigid form of legislative quotas in which the quality of representation is not nearly as important as its racial or ethnic hue.
  5. Under the rigid conventions imposed on composers of music for the Russian Orthodox Church, Tchaikovsky was required to adopt a style far removed from that of his worldly self.
  6. An additional 22 percent already are set aside for the lowest strata in the rigid hierarchy of Indian society.
  7. Hindus, who make up at least 85 percent of India's people, have a complex social system of castes and sub-castes dividing them into a rigid hierarchy.
  8. In Romania, however, President Nicolae Ceausescu told a party congress that he rejects reforms and proclaimed the perpetuation of rigid Communist rule.
  9. After 40 years of rigid central planning, East German enterprises have little in their books that approximates Western accounting standards.
  10. "Brazil is the first country to sign a medium-term accord without having to have any rigid links with the fund," da Nobrega said.
  11. Perhaps the most comprehensive precedent for the Massachusetts proposals was a recently enacted Oregon law setting standards on recycled content of glass containers, rigid plastic containers, telephone books and newsprint.
  12. He warned, however, that circumstances in the Balkans could change. Mr Bush cautioned against drawing up too rigid a set of rules whereby international military intervention might be determined.
  13. Shaking up rigid structures anywhere can cause adjustment problems.
  14. Mr. Tapp said the rigid plastics group should continue to benefit from growing demand for its PET line of plastic containers, made from polyethylene terephthalate, which had sales of C$49 million last year.
  15. The ruling said rigid racial quotas must be supported by evidence of past discrimination; for example, that black-owned enterprises tried to obtain construction contracts but were denied them.
  16. Bush campaign chairman James Baker had insisted on a format that proved the most rigid in the history of televised presidential debates, one that precluded follow-up questions and virtually any give-and-take between the candidates.
  17. Mr. Schlesinger's reputation for being particularly rigid on monetary matters has earned him criticism.
  18. Honeycomb barriers, rather than rigid steel or concrete ones, might also have slowed Senna's and Ratzenberger's deceleration rate enough for them to survive. But there are more fundamental decisions to be made.
  19. In his keynote speech Monday, Ceausescu condemned the whirlwind of democratization changing the systems of the formerly rigid Warsaw pact nations.
  20. Investors seeking a stake in RPC, the rigid plastic packaging company, have subscribed for more than 11 times the number of shares on offer. When the offer closed on Tuesday, the intermediaries offer was 11.06 times subscribed.
  21. The two companies announced Tuesday they will work to develop a market for recycled syrup and ketchup bottles and other types of rigid plastic materials not now being widely recycled.
  22. But many traders pooh-poohed such worries, saying the German authorities had no room, either within their slowing economy or the rigid structure of the European Monetary System, to tighten policy.
  23. From a balcony at Leipzig's opera house, speakers denounced past rigid practices and demanded justice from the leaders who mishandled the economy.
  24. The lack of unity at the top was illustrated this month when rigid Marxist ideologues, led by a Politburo member, Hu Qiaomu, forced a new round of purges of intellectuals from the Communist Party.
  25. In March 1985, a different kind of communist _ Mikhail S. Gorbachev, charismatic and tactically nimble _ took over the party. The rigid communist autocracy began loosening its grip.
  26. It has imposed a rigid four-day format on the once sprawling conclaves of American democracy.
  27. But business opponents of the measure contend that its provisions involve excessive government intervention in their affairs, and that the law's provisions are too rigid.
  28. He emphasized absolute party power and rigid discipline within the party, key themes of China's current leaders.
  29. Mr. Bloch also believes the NSF program breaks down rigid academic distinctions at universities.
  30. Rather than using the opportunity of unity to prise open the more protected parts of the German economy, the federal republic has exported its solid but rigid economic system to the east.
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