austere
英 [?'st??; ??-]
美[?'st?r]
- adj. 嚴(yán)峻的；簡(jiǎn)樸的；苦行的；無裝飾的
英英釋意
- 1. severely simple;
- "a stark interior"
- 2. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;
- "an austere expression"
- "a stern face"
- 3. practicing great self-denial;
- "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James
- "a desert nomad's austere life"
- "a spartan diet"
- "a spartan existence"