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Dra·co·ni·an
dr ko ni n
adjective
(often l.c.) harshly cruel or rigorous.The punishments for non-violent drug offenses are both draconian and expensive.The guerrillas made use of draconian methods in their training of recruits.
1759年,“与 Draco”有关,指古希腊政治家; 1777年,指法律,“严格的,极其严厉或严酷”(早期为 Draconic,这可以从1640年代推断出)。Draco 是希腊语 Drakon 的拉丁化形式,是雅典执政官,他于公元前621年为雅典制定了一部法律,规定轻罪要处以死刑。他的名字似乎字面意思是“目光敏锐的”(见 dragon)。
Latin Dracon-, Draco, from Greek Drakōn Draco (Athenian lawgiver)
The first known use of draconian was in 1775
1 Despite Draconian fire regulations and an army of inspectors to enforce them, Russia has one of the world’s worst fire-safety records.
2 Draconian restrictions were put on US members of Congress if they wanted to view TPP while it was in negotiation, so much so that they were even threatened with prosecution if they talked about it.
3 I should have made clear that the Draconian slashing of funds, and personnel, results in inadequate staff to carefully review all the products that come before the Agency.
4 And in order to do this they have resorting to more and more Draconian taxation.
无论如何,为了实施那些福利计划,各国只有征收越来越重的税.
5 Draconian Trump suddenly became Care Bear Trump: We need to be fair and maybe some should stay, he said.
6 Such Draconian measures did little to stop slave revolts in Jamaica or elsewhere, but the revolts did change the debate over slavery.
7 “Where do you think you would be without the Draconian Marsh role?”
8 “The penalties for breaching the act are Draconian,” he said.
9 That's perhaps a little more draconian but that's a quick action.
那可能是有点更苛刻的,但是那是个快动作。
10 Alternatives such as runaway inflation or Draconian cuts in living standards have major, what shall we say, disadvantages.
其他选择诸如脱缰野马般的通胀,或是严苛撙节的生活标准,都会带来我们所说的巨大的伤害。
11 Whether accurate or not, the correction itself should make any draconian measures less likely.
无论传言准确与否, 股价回落本身,应足以降低出台激烈措施的可能性.
12 Draconian work-for-hire practices at Marvel Comics kept Kirby from ever seeing a royalty or right to any of the characters he visualized for the company, which comic fans have called the House That Jack Built.
13 So far the European response has been less draconian than many feared.
目前为止欧洲的应对没有像人们想的那样严酷。
14 Draconian budget cuts to forecasters, satellites and the research scientists who keep improving the predictions jeopardize an invaluable benefit.
15 Doubling-down on Draconian policies that do little to deter drug use is itself a sign of intoxication - to a “war” that victimizes Americans as much as it helps them.
16 Draconian carbon-reduction goals imposed on poorer countries by richer ones without adequate economic and technological support will hurt the poorer nations, putting excessive strain on the world’s overall efforts to fight global warming.
17 For the young women I met in Nanjing and Shanghai, even the draconian one-child policy of the last 30 years has an aspect of liberation.
对于我在南京和上海见到的年轻女性而言,过去30年苛刻的独生子女政策,也有解放的一面。
18 In recent months, a dozen states have taken steps to pass laws that restrict abortion rights in Draconian ways.
19 She relied on a team for “supported decision making,” which Judge Glen called “a less restrictive alternate to the Draconian loss of liberty” of guardianship.
20 The US has had to act to protect its writers from Britain's draconian libel laws.
美国不得不保护它的作家免遭英国严酷的文字诽谤法的处罚;
1 残酷
harsh cruel inhuman barbaric heavy-handed cold-blooded bestial cruelty inhumanity cruel savage heartless gory soulless draconic unfeeling unhuman sanguinolent immane felly cruelty bloodiness
2 严法重典主义
4 严酷的
harsh rigorous stern astringent pitiless hard brutal grim brute blistering uncompromising hard severe grim unkind inclement iron-bound harsh stark crucial rigorous cruel shrewd draconic inclement eager rugged arduous tyrannous robustious heavy
5 古代雅典执政官德拉科的
6 龙一样的
7 德拉克
8 严厉
close hard heavy tough severe sharp strict harsh stiff rigorous stern grim stringent punitive blistering biting punishing scathing repressive astringent gruelling dour acerbic pitiless uncharitable unsparing strictly severity rigour boot-faced hard round smart tough exact raw tight severe dear strict stiff rugged heated rigorous rigid cruel stern strait tart grim stringent uncompromising exacting brazen scathing astringent austere dour diabolic uncharitable unsparing stour gloves-off heavy hardly harsh keenly smartly roundly severity rigor tyranny austerity rigidity acrimony exactitude stringency
9 严厉的
close hard heavy tough severe sharp strict harsh stiff rigorous stern grim stringent punitive blistering biting punishing scathing repressive astringent gruelling dour acerbic pitiless uncharitable unsparing boot-faced hard round smart tough exact raw tight severe dear strict stiff rugged heated rigorous rigid cruel stern strait tart grim stringent uncompromising exacting brazen scathing astringent austere dour diabolic uncharitable unsparing stour heavy harsh
10 残忍
foul cruel ruthless atrocious inhumane merciless brutish fiendish slash-and-burn cruelty barbarity in cold blood tigrish boarish bloody brutal savage outrageous grim relentless monstrous ferocious wanton bloodthirsty barbarous beastly remorseless insensate dog-eat-dog sanguinary truculent wolfish bloody-minded tigerish farouche Neronian wolvish slaughterous sanguineous butcherly dispiteous roughshod tiger brutality ferocity savagery brutalism savagism
11 苛刻
heavy severe sharp harsh stern exacting scathing trenchant uncharitable kindless casehardened hardhanded kindlessly saltly harshly inexorably oppressively waspishly mordacity severity hardness rigor saltiness ruthlessness astringency induration inexorability waspishness hard rough marble rude oppressive acrimonious piquant inclement shaft poignancy acerbity near the bone be death on hard stringent punitive penal sternly
12 苛刻的
heavy severe sharp harsh stern exacting scathing trenchant uncharitable kindless casehardened hardhanded hard rough marble rude oppressive acrimonious piquant inclement hard stringent punitive penal
13 严酷
harsh rigorous stern astringent pitiless rigour harsh stark rigour hard crucial rigorous cruel shrewd draconic inclement sharply sharpness asperity eager brutal rugged grim arduous tyrannous robustious heavy wrath rigor tyranny
15 残忍的
bloodthirsty brutal cruel grim ruthless ferocious felon merciless cold-blooded dastardly devilish barbarous red in tooth and claw foul atrocious inhumane brutish fiendish slash-and-burn tigrish boarish bloody savage outrageous relentless monstrous wanton beastly remorseless insensate dog-eat-dog sanguinary truculent wolfish bloody-minded tigerish farouche Neronian wolvish slaughterous sanguineous butcherly dispiteous
16 残酷的
harsh cruel inhuman barbaric heavy-handed cold-blooded bestial cruel savage heartless gory soulless draconic unfeeling unhuman sanguinolent immane