ADJ-GRADED (气候或条件)艰苦的,恶劣的,严峻的 Harsh climates or conditions are very difficult for people, animals, and plants to live in.
The weather grew harsh, chilly and unpredictable. 天气变得恶劣、寒冷且变化莫测。
...the harsh desert environment. 恶劣的沙漠环境
...after the harsh experience of the war. 经历了严酷的战争之后
ADJ-GRADED (言行)严厉的,无情的 Harsh actions or speech are unkind and show no understanding or sympathy.
...the cold, harsh cruelty of her husband... 她丈夫冷酷无情的残忍
He said many harsh and unkind things about his opponents. 他以尖刻恶毒的语言大肆抨击自己的对手。
ADJ-GRADED 粗陋的;刺目的;粗糙的 Something that is harsh is so hard, bright, or rough that it seems unpleasant or harmful.
Tropical colours may look rather harsh in our dull northern light. 热带色彩在我们北方暗淡的光线下可能显得有点刺目。
...harsher detergents that can leave hair brittle. 会让发质变脆弱的刺激性较强的洗发水
ADJ-GRADED (声音)刺耳的,难听的 Harsh voices and sounds are ones that are rough and unpleasant to listen to.
It's a pity she has such a loud harsh voice. 可惜她的嗓门太大太难听了。
ADJ-GRADED (现实、真相)残酷的,无情的 If you talk about harsh realities or facts, or the harsh truth, you are emphasizing that they are true or real, although they are unpleasant and people try to avoid thinking about them.
The harsh truth is that luck plays a big part in who will live or die. 残酷的事实是,谁死谁活在很大程度上要靠运气。
The plant flourishes particularly well in slightly harsher climes. 这种植物在气候条件稍差一点的地区长势尤其好。
Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet. 公正的和平意味着决不让我们的后代生活在一个更严酷和不宜人的星球。
But we also need harsher punishments. 但是,我们同样需要更加严厉的惩罚。
To discourage smokers, Tokyo has raised the price of cigarettes and attached harsher label warnings on their packaging. 为了劝阻吸烟族,东京提高了烟价并在香烟包装上附上醒目的警告语。
Reality, however, has been much harsher. 然而,现实要残酷得多。
Granted, the penalties for obscenity can be far harsher: Distribution of obscenity can result in jail time. 必须承认,对淫秽信息的惩罚确是比较苛刻的:淫秽的发行物将导致刑狱。
It's quite possible that kids with poor reasoning skills misbehave more often and therefore elicit harsher punishment. 很有可能感知能力差的孩子更多地犯错从而引来更严厉的惩罚。
Other mathematicians attacked analytic methods in harsher language. 别的数学家用比较粗鲁的语言攻击分析方法。
But the Hamori/ Cappelli study and another by Booz& Company, a consultancy, show that Europe is a more dynamic and harsher environment than America or Japan for chief executives. 但是Hamori/Cappelli和一家咨询公司Booz&Company的研究显示:对于总裁来说,欧洲有着比美国,日本有着更充满变化和更残酷的环境。
If the reports are negative, the US, Britain and France are poised to push for harsher measures. 如果报告结果是负面的,美国、英国和法国势将要求对伊朗采取更为严苛的措施。
They are meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday to discuss imposing harsher sanctions against Iran if it does not cooperate. 他们星期三将在德国法兰克福会晤,讨论若伊朗不肯合作,将对其施行更严厉制裁的问题。
The law has been harsher on soldiers than it has on civilians. 法律对军人从来都比对百姓更严厉。
In this case low-power individuals were actually easier on others and harsher on themselves, with values of7.7 and6.8 respectively. 回答同一问题的低权位者反而对他人宽容,对自己更严格,分别给了7.7和6.8分。
The police make the punishment harsher for all kinds of crime. 警察对所有形式的犯罪采取更为严厉的惩戒办法。
Schools have been forced to introduce harsher disciplinary measures. 学校被迫推行更加严厉的纪律措施。
In recent years, fatal car accidents in Chinese cities have triggered a heated public outcry for harsher penalties. 最近几年,中国许多城市的致命交通事故引起公众强烈呼吁实行更严厉的处罚。
The internet environment is harsher than in many western countries, but westerners would be wrong to think that China has no freedom at all. 中国互联网环境比许多西方国家更严格,但如果西方人认为中国完全没有自由,那么他们就错了。
Harsh discipline and harsh management, the harsher the better. 严格的纪律,严格的管理,越严越好。
His successors and fellow Russians have been harsher. 他的继任者以及俄罗斯人民对他更为严苛。
Sustaining development in a harsher physical environment and a more crowded planet requires a great deal of human ingenuity. 要在总体环境更差和人口密度更大的世界实现持续发展,人类就必须要具备更强的创造力。
Harsher sentences also offer little deterrence: When people consider committing crimes, they may think about whether they will be caught, but probably not about how harshly they will be punished. 更严厉的判刑产生的威慑作用也微乎其微,当人们考虑犯罪时,他们想到的是是否会被抓,而不是可能判刑的严重程度。
Students tend to be much harsher on each other than faculty. 学生彼此之间可能会比教师的严厉程度更高。
China mulls harsher penalties for food safety crimes. 中国欲严惩食品安全犯罪。
The company said sales of semiconductors used in cars were expected to face much harsher market conditions. 该公司称,预计用在汽车上的半导体销售将面临更为严酷的市场环境。
Speaking ahead of the execution, Keiko Chiba, justice minister in Japan, said execution for a drugs offence was a harsher sentence than would be possible in Japan and questioned Chinese judicial protections. 日本法务大臣千叶景子(keikochiba)在中国处决赤野光信之前表示,处决毒贩比日本可能的判刑更为严厉,并对中国的司法保护提出质疑。
A harsher punishment requiring a100,000-yuan fine and lifetime disqualification for government-subsidized apartments was proposed in April. 四月时一份严厉的处罚被提议,要求处以10万的罚款并终生没有资格申请政府的保障性住房。
In some industrialized countries, counterfeiting t-shirts receives a harsher punishment than counterfeiting medicines. 在一些工业化国家,制造假冒T恤衫受到的惩罚力度要比惩罚制造假冒药物严厉。
Very slowly, particularly in Germany, descendants of culprits began writing harsher accounts. 战犯的后代直到很久以后才慢慢开始撰写较为尖锐的文章,尤其是在德国。
Trade associations and senior bankers have warned that capital and people are mobile, and that if the environment for financial services in the UK becomes harsher than elsewhere they will be off, taking their tax payments with them. 金融业协会和高级银行家警告称,资本和人员是流动的,如果英国金融服务环境变得比其它地方更为苛刻,他们将会离开英国,从而导致税收流失。
Governments, communities and individuals are being warned that they will need to quickly adapt to harsher conditions. 社区和个人都收到严重警告,他们必须尽快适应更加严厉的环境。