severity
英 [s?'ver?t?]
美[s?'v?r?ti]
- n. 嚴(yán)重；嚴(yán)格；猛烈
英英釋意
- 1. used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- 2. something hard to endure;
- "the asperity of northern winters"
- 3. excessive sternness;
- "severity of character"
- "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
- "the rigors of boot camp"