severest

英 [sɪˈvɪərɪst] 美 [səˈvɪrəst]

adj.  极为恶劣的; 十分严重的; 严厉的; 重的; 苛刻的
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  1. ADJ-GRADED 十分严重的;极为恶劣的
    You use severe to indicate that something bad or undesirable is great or intense.
    1. ...a business with severe cash flow problems...
      有严重资金周转问题的公司
    2. I suffered from severe bouts of depression...
      我曾患有严重的抑郁症。
    3. Steve passed out on the floor and woke up blinded and in severe pain...
      史蒂夫昏倒在地板上，醒来后什么也看不见了，还感到剧烈的疼痛。
    4. Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places.
      有些地方专业人员严重短缺。
  2. ADJ-GRADED (惩罚、批评)严厉的，严重的，苛刻的
    Severe punishments or criticisms are very strong or harsh.
    1. This was a dreadful crime and a severe sentence is necessary...
      这一罪行十分恶劣，必须要重判。
    2. Before she could reply, my mother launched into a severe reprimand.
      她还没来得及回答，我妈妈就开始严厉地训斥起她来。
  3. ADJ-GRADED (外貌、外观)简朴的，朴素的,不加修饰的
    If you describe the appearance of someone or something as severe, you do not like its plain appearance and lack of decoration.
    1. ...wearing her felt hats and severe grey suits...
      戴着她的毡帽，穿着朴素的灰色套装
    2. The cushions add a touch of colour in a room that might otherwise look severe.
      靠垫给房间添了一抹亮色，不然房间看上去可能太素净了。
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双语例句

  1. Cora's her own severest critic.
    科拉对自己要求最严格。
  2. For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof.
    虽然你的指斥都没有根据，都是听到人家以讹传讹，可是我那次对你的态度，实在应该受到最严厉的责备。
  3. Seeing the magnitude of the crime committed by the minor accused, the Delhi police have approached the Delhi High Court to ensure severest punishment for him.
    考虑到这名未成年被告人所犯下的严重罪行，德里警方已经提请德里高级法院务必给予他最严厉的处罚。
  4. The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, but when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
    对于品德的最严格考验，不在于你能否保守秘密。而在于秘密泄露后你能否不说你早就知道。
  5. The local government will not hesitate to take the severest measures against criminals.
    当地政府将毫不犹豫地采取最严厉的措施对付犯罪分子。
  6. In times of severest trial God has made to us our calling and election plain, and we have made it sure: then have we chosen the LORD to be our God, and He has shown that we are assuredly His chosen.
    所以，这就是我们的情况，在许多考虑来临之际，上帝清楚显明祂的拣选与呼召，而我们也再次肯定自己的抉择，上帝就是我们的主。
  7. Even the severest of World Bank critics like me think that economic growth is what we want.
    即便是像我这样最严厉的世行批评人士都认为，经济增长是我们所需要的。
  8. After the severest reprimand, he did not tremble.
    即使受到最严厉的申斥，他也不发抖。
  9. When the game players were given the opportunity to punish a pretend opponent those with the greatest reduction in P300 meted out the severest punishments.
    但是，当一个虚拟对手出现，游戏玩家得到惩罚对手的机会时，P300反应最弱的玩家给予了对手最严厉的惩罚。
  10. All those who have attended to the subject, believe that there is the severest rivalry between the males of many birds to attract, by singing, the females.
    凡是注意到这问题的都认为许多雄性鸟儿之间最激烈的斗争是用歌声引诱雌鸟。
  11. The newspapers fulminate against the crime. She would rather have had them spoken about, even in terms of severest censure.
    报纸严厉谴责这个罪行。她宁可叫他们尽量数说自己的错处，即使是极严厉的斥责。
  12. The severest toil was child's play compared with this.
    跟这一比，最沉重的苦役也好像小孩子的游戏。
  13. His conduct calls for the severest condemnation.
    他的行为有必要受到最严厉的惩办。
  14. Despite the severest economic recession in recent years, Hefei's exhibition industry fueled the rocket of the city's social life and economic development into an even higher sky.
    在被称为经济最困难的一年里，合肥会展业燃起熊熊之火，助推全市社会经济裂变式发展。
  15. Plato, one of the Sophists severest critics viewed them as the enemies of all that was best in Hellenic culture.
    柏拉图，诡辩派职业哲学家最严厉的批评者之一，认为他们是古希腊文化所有精华的敌人。
  16. He remained unbending under the severest of tortures.
    他受尽酷刑，仍然坚贞不屈。
  17. The death penalty is now in the world the severest one kind of penalty, is also called the capital punishment.
    死刑是当今世界上最为峻厉的一种科罚，又称为死刑。
  18. The death penalty, which deprives person's life, is the severest penalty. The most severe punishment a matriarch can dispense is exile from the house.
    死刑剥夺人的生命，是最严厉的刑罚。女族长所能判处的最重刑罚是流放。
  19. As you have mentioned, the Asian financial turmoil has dealt a hard blow to Hong Kong's economy recently, putting Hong Kong to the severest test it has ever experienced.
    正如你在信里所提及，香港的经济最近受到亚洲金融风暴所影响，我们正面对前所未有的严峻考验。
  20. She was put through the severest tortures, but not a word could the enemy wring from her.
    她受尽了酷刑，但敌人没能从她嘴里压出一句话。
  21. This summer, our country faced the test of our severest floods in a century.
    今年夏天，国家发生了百年不遇的特大洪水灾害。
  22. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
    最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公。
  23. Moreover, the side in-between would be the severest victim in the battle of love, embarrassed in making any perspective choice.
    再者，局中人将成为爱情战争最严重的牺牲品。
  24. The drought trend in autumn was the severest, and the probability of light drought was the largest in winter and spring.
    秋季青海省干旱化倾向最为严重，冬春季出现轻旱几率最大。
  25. Now his stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters, proof that courage and faith and the zest for freedom are truly indestructible.
    现在，他人生的艨艟战舰渡过了忧患世纪以来最凌厉的风暴，停泊在平静的水面上，证明了他的勇气、信念和对自由的执着真正是颠扑不破的。
  26. I was his severest critic.
    我是对他批评得最严厉的人。
  27. The newspapers called for the severest punishment of the man who had killed king.
    报界一致要求严惩杀害金的凶手。
  28. But as Greece and Sicily have severe cold, producing snow and ice, so doubtless would Lincoln Island in the severest part of the winter and it was advisable to provide against it.
    可是希腊和西西里岛也有严寒和冰雪，因此在冬季最冷的时候，林肯岛上一定也会封冻的，最好还是预先准备。
  29. The WTO head warned that free trade faced its severest test, with protectionist pressures poised to rise.
    拉米警告称，自由贸易正面临最严峻的考验，保护主义压力有上升之势。
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