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 austere [ɔ'stɪr]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 严峻的, 禁欲的, 简朴的

  1. Monks are leading simple, austere lives.
    僧侣们过着清苦的生活。
  2. The room was furnished in austere style.
    这间屋子陈设得简单朴素。
  3. Pure or simple in design or style; austere.
    朴实的样式或风格上朴实简单的；质朴的


austere
[ adj ]
  1. severely simple

    2. <adj.all>
    a stark interior
  2. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

    3. <adj.all>
    an austere expression
    a stern face
  3. practicing great self-denial

    4. <adj.all>
    Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
    a desert nomad's austere life
    a spartan diet
    a spartan existence


Austere \Aus*tere"\, [F. aust[`e]re, L. austerus, fr. Gr. ?, fr.
? to parch, dry. Cf. {Sear}.]
1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity;
as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid;
rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose.
--Dryden.

3. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

Syn: Harsh; sour; rough; rigid; stern; severe; rigorous;
strict.

  1. At the Salon du Dessin, it is positively austere.
  2. The austere, mainly black-and-white canvases of Pollock, Motherwell, Kline, De Kooning and Soulages represent a mentality that appears to be something like the opposite of that in the design objects and news photos.
  3. GORDON BUNSHAFT, an architect noted for austere, modernist designs in glass and steel and best known for his Lever House, which introduced the International style to New York's Park Avenue in 1952.
  4. In the austere little Church of St. Michael and All Angels, in the northwest corner, is a plaque for the poet, quoting from "East Coker": "In my beginning is my end."
  5. The lights of the austere, Presbyterian church shone brightly into the gathering afternoon gloom, and sheep grazed in a field nearby.
  6. His Boris is commanding, but not yet charismatic. Geneva opts for the original 1869 version - an austere succession of seven panels which confines music and drama to bare essentials.
  7. She posthumously won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for her "Collected Poems." Her grave in Heptonstall, a clutch of stone houses in the austere south Pennine hills, has become a place of pilgrimage.
  8. Tall and austere, the bearded Mr Scharping stands with his arms sternly folded across his chest, a fixed smile on his face.
  9. A good case in point is the Tallis Scholars, an a cappella choir that combines crystalline clarity with austere intonation, and for whom the Penguin Guide displays a special enthusiasm.
  10. Then he bought a 12-volt TV set, which some austere commune members eyed with contempt.
  11. Behind the austere facade, however, the United States is pushing a multinational effort to provide Poland with nearly $1 billion in extra cash this year by pressuring Western banks and governments to reschedule the $39 billion debt it owes.
  12. The unemployment decline provides authorities with an argument for maintaining austere economic policies, despite strikes and labor protests demanding faster wage increases.
  13. These comments follow controversy over recently leaked Home Office documents which suggested that Mr Howard thought prisons were not 'austere' enough. The Prison Officers' Association promised fierce opposition to any further privatisation plans.
  14. Just as he transformed his 1978 loss into an asset, he has managed to project through his austere style a sense of integrity and competence.
  15. Two visions of Vermont have collided in this picturesque hilltop village of austere white buildings and a village green.
  16. Hotel space is scarce. Embassies, though maintained in the tidy Rhineland tradition, tend toward the austere and outmoded.
  17. According to administration and congressional officials, the budget will also include: _The most austere Pentagon budget in more than a decade.
  18. Italy's Senate yesterday passed an austere 1994 budget as street protests flared in Rome and the poor south of the country over cuts in welfare and subsidies, Reuter reports from Rome.
  19. What the austere Beckett would make of them is anybody's guess, but the playwright's love of classic comedians is well known.
  20. He would like to see the austere Japanese architect Tadeo Ando bring his abstract concrete vision to London.
  21. Although the pictorial language used in these awesomely austere pictures is not particularly original, the vision behind them is.
  22. Particularly impressive are the large folding screens, with their austere and rhythmic landscape imagery set against abstracted gold leaf backgrounds.
  23. The noble proportions and bare walls, which must disconcert those who associated Garnier's architecture with rampageous gilt-encrusted decoration, would still look austere even if the imperial eagles and initials had been sculpted on them as planned.
  24. The IMF is widely disliked in Brazil for the austere economic policies it recommends.
  25. Social advocates sense a golden opportunity after having to endure a long dry spell of austere budgets in the Reagan era of large Pentagon buildups.
  26. With Salinas, cartoonists have gone far beyond making fun of his ears and his austere economics, attacking the very legitimacy of his presidency.
  27. This solo in silence is inspired by Nigel Hall's sculpture, which in turn was inspired by the austere and isolated forms of a dry lake in the Mojave desert.
  28. The four-day party meeting ended with a communique calling for austere living over the next two years to combat inflation, excessive growth and corruption.
  29. Perched on a plateau in Calabria's isolated and austere Sila mountains, Petilia Policastro is a town that Italy's economic boom left behind.
  30. Since last year's protests, the party's aging leaders have spoken nostalgically of that era and the wartime virtues of austere living, personal sacrifice and patriotism.
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