harshness

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n.  严肃；刺耳；粗糙的事物；酸涩性

复数：harshnesses　

TOEFL

BNC.18654 / COCA.20513

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （气候或条件）艰苦的，恶劣的，严峻的
  Harshclimates or conditions are very difficult for people, animals, and plants to live in.
  1. The weather grew harsh, chilly and unpredictable.
     天气变得恶劣、寒冷且变化莫测。
  2. ...the harsh desert environment.
     恶劣的沙漠环境
  3. ...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
  Harshactions or speech are unkind and show no understanding or sympathy.
  1. ...the cold, harsh cruelty of her husband...
     她丈夫冷酷无情的残忍
  2. 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 isharshis so hard, bright, or rough that it seems unpleasant or harmful.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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
  Harshvoices and sounds are ones that are rough and unpleasant to listen to.
  1. 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 aboutharshrealities or facts, or theharshtruth, you are emphasizing that they are true or real, although they are unpleasant and people try to avoid thinking about them.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• excessive sternness
  1. severity of character
  2. the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
  3. the rigors of boot camp
  Synonym:severityseverenessrigorrigourrigorousnessrigourousnessinclemencyhardnessstiffness
• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
  Synonym:crueltycruelness
• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
  Synonym:abrasivenessscratchiness
• the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
  Synonym:roughness

双语例句

• Think you already realize that punishment does not always produce good children, many times harshness produces maladjusted children.
  我想你已经意识到惩罚并总培养出好孩子，很多时候严厉导致小孩失调。
• How fragile and tender women are, he thought, the mere mention of war and harshness makes them faint.
  他心里想，女人是多么脆弱而娇嫩啊，你一提起战争和凶险的事她们就要晕倒了。
• This can cause significant ride harshness and noise that reduces passenger comfort and enjoyment.
  这会导致明显的颠簸及噪音从而降低乘员的舒适性。
• A second topic of his scientific work is focussing on the Noise, Vibration and Harshness ( NVH) behaviour of vehicles.
  其在科研工作中关注的第二个主题是汽车的噪声、振动和舒适性（NVH）状况。
• The rich upstart may treat servants and supposed inferiors with harshness or contempt; not so the gentleman.
  富有的暴发户也许会严厉对待仆人，鄙视地位卑微者。
• For all its harshness and irrationality, it is the only world we've got.
  尽管它严酷而又不合理，它终究是我们具有的唯一的世界。
• The noise of the trains stopping or rounding curves has a high-pitchinged harshness that is difficult to describe.
  列车停止和转弯时发出的噪音之尖锐刺耳实在让人无法描述。
• The breed is tough and resilient, having adapted to the harshness of Turkmenistan lands, where horses must live without much food or water.
  该品种是坚韧，适应土库曼斯坦的土地，马匹必须生活没有太多的食物或水的严厉性。
• The changes that occurred in China through contact with the West disrupted this system, made it unworkable, and increased the real or apparent harshness of the inequality of life-changes between gentry and peasantry.
  中国在与西方接触的过程中发生的变化破坏了这种体制，使其丧失效力，并使士绅和农民之间不平等的生活差异变得更为严重。
• In order to teach me the harshness of farm work, I was led to the farm by my parents since I was6 years old.
  父母为了教育我，6岁起，我就和父母一起下地，自己不干活，就看父母在地里挥汗如雨，一天又一天，一年又一年。