喜樂美語

Think of something that will not bend. Press on it and nothing gives: no soft edge, no exception, no easier way round. That stiffness is what the Latin word behind rigour named, and every meaning here is that same hardness pointed somewhere else — at people, at the weather, at a course, or at your own working method.

可以想成一個怎麼壓都不彎的東西。你推它，它一點都不讓：沒有軟的邊，沒有例外，也沒有繞過去的捷徑。這個「硬」正是拉丁來源裡的畫面。這一頁的每個意思，都是同一種硬，只是指向不同的地方——有時候指向人，有時候指向天氣，有時候指向一門課，有時候指向你自己做事的方法。

From the word’s history

The source traces rigour through Old French rigor to Latin rigor, meaning stiffness, rigidity, cold and harshness, from rigere, to be rigid.

來源把 rigour 一路追到拉丁文 rigor（僵硬、堅硬、寒冷、嚴酷），再到動詞 rigere（發硬、不彎）。所以「硬到不肯彎」不是後人想出來的比喻，它就寫在這個字的來源裡，連「寒冷」那一支也一起留了下來。

Wiktionary entry for rigour, packet evidence source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:801111664 (Middle English rigour < Old French rigor < Latin rigor, from rigere)

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 rigours

意思相近

strictnesshardshipsthoroughnessseverityharshnessexactnessdemandsprecisionsternnessstrainscaredifficulty+2

意思相反

leniencycomfortsloppinessflexibilityeasecarelessnessmercyeasiness

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

rigournoun/ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    Severity or strictness.

    • And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
  • 2

    Harshness, as of climate.

  • 3

    medicinesciencesA feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.

  • 4

    Character of being unyielding or inflexible.

  • 5

    Shrewd questioning.

  • 6

    Higher level of difficulty.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。