draconian的意思|draconian的解释-里氏词典

draconian [dre'konɪən]

a. 严厉的, 残酷的

Kapak Lands: Many surviving kapaks have joined their brethren in the draconian nation in Teyr.
卡帕克龙人的领地：许多仍然生存的卡帕克龙人加入了他们的同胞在提尔的龙人国度。
Because of time constraints, we will begin promptly. Lateness will be penalized in a draconian fashion.
因为时间限制，我们会迅速开始。迟到将以严厉方式处罚。
And both state and local governments have taken draconian austerity measures in an attempt to make ends meet.
州政府和地方政府都采取严厉的紧缩措施以求收支平衡。

draconian

[ adj ]
of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
<adj.pert>
Draconian measures

Draconian \Dra*co"ni*an\, a.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Used especially in the phrase {Draconian punishment}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

{Draconian code}, or {Draconian laws}, a code of laws made by
Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said
to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of
excessive rigor.

{Draconian punishment}, punishment so severe as to seem
excessive for the crime being punished.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

"The problem is not excess expenses," Williams said. "The ones that close have gone through draconian cost cutting measures.
ADM received a $29.2 million subsidy for its gasohol operation last year alone; in the past, Mr. Andreas has lobbied such congressional friends as Senate Minority leader Robert Dole to impose draconian restrictions on alcohol fuel imports.
The combination of the most draconian spending squeeze for a decade and another hefty round of tax rises left Conservative MPs howling with delight.
As Observer reported last week, Beijing's city fathers are trying to bring in draconian laws to curb dog-ownership. But the dogs only have themselves to blame; last year in Beijing alone 52,000 people were bitten.
Few thought through the implications for their constituents. For all his protestations that key elements of the welfare state will be protected, Mr Clarke is proposing a draconian regime.
"We always thought it was the most draconian and disastrous result from the start," says John Crosby, an insurance-industry lawyer and an executive with the no-fault campaign.
The Letters put more flesh on these biographical bones: they give insights into her draconian childhood, her disastrous marriage to Peter Rodd ('Prod'), whom she did not succeed in divorcing until 1957.
It might have been better in the long run had EPA actually imposed nonsensical draconian curbs on economic activity.
"RTC should not reap windfall profits by transforming occupied residential apartments into more valuable vacant apartments by the draconian measure of evicting the longstanding tenants of those apartments in violation of New York law," Abrams wrote.
The year-on-year 3.3 per cent reduction in general and administrative expenses is a start, but future cuts will have to be more draconian.
It is of course possible that Dr. Young will impose draconian restrictions on Accutane.
What's really hurt the community has been draconian rent control, enforced to protect a favored class of barnacle renters familiar to college towns.
Iran's draconian laws call for a mandatory death sentence for possession of even small quantities of drugs.
By December that year, he was introducing a draconian programme of spending cuts.
Earlier this month, directors heightened the worry about First City by suspending the common and preferred dividends to preserve capital, a move considered draconian in banking circles.
The more draconian proposals thrown up by the Treasury's review of welfare spending would never muster a majority in the House of Commons.
That said, there hasn't been a serious effort at reform since the present system was installed in 1926 to replace the draconian Victorian-era system of debtors prisons.
John Van de Kamp, California's attorney general, will probably use a proposition even broader and more draconian than Prop 65 in his bid for the California governorship next year.
Mr. Arbit, a wealthy San Mateo investor, had vowed to finance a campaign to pass a draconian anti-logging initiative if the governor vetoed the compromise legislation.
The serious misdeclaration penalty, the most draconian of sanctions, is only to apply to the larger cases and to persistent offenders; The cost of the government loan guarantee scheme is to be reduced and its scope will be broadened.
In the words of one insider, the IRA will continue to hold the key which could unlock the door to peace. Nor should we expect the draconian security clampdown predicted by some in the province.
'This is a very draconian measure and safeguards are needed against possible abuse,' says Mr Bird. Other questions crowd in once the concept of a moratorium is accepted.
However, a much more draconian birth-control policy was implemented last year in Canton.
The Russian government is mapping draconian cuts in its military budget this year as part of Yeltsin's economic program, according to documents obtained by Reuters news agency.
But the firms that did use these securities were among the most successful of all thrifts until the draconian measures of July 1989 forced them to mark down and sell most of their holdings into a sinking market within 90 days.
"That secrecy leads to a proposal like the one from Ways and Means, which seems to me sort of draconian," he said.
The point, however, is as moot as the attempt to redistribute spending power must appear draconian to affluent voters in marginal seats.
"The reason I issued what might be viewed as a draconian case-management order is that I didn't feel that I could deal with a case with so many lawyers and so many parties in the usual way," he says.
Gandhi's move to delay consideration on the bill "does not does not fully meet the purport of the objections to and the grave apprehensions about this draconian bill," said the leftist Patriot newspaper.
Students, in turn, blame science professors for using antiquated teaching methods and draconian grading systems. They also complain of dry lectures packed with scores of incomprehensible formulas and illustrated with confounding diagrams.

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