A stern face that does not — no warmth, no smile, no give. Severity measures how far something goes in that unyielding direction.
From the word’s history
From Latin sevēritās, from sevērus 'stern, strict, serious' — the word starts with a person's stern manner, and the other uses extend from there.
一種想法是:severity 經由法語回到拉丁文 sevēritās,來自 sevērus(嚴格的、不苟言笑的)。也就是說,這個字最早畫的就是「人的態度」——先有不通融的人,才有不通融的處罰;等到把同樣的眼光放到天氣、傷勢、考題上,就變成我們今天最常看到的「嚴重程度」。
Wiktionary: Middle English severity ← Middle French severite ← Latin sevēritās (← sevērus 'stern, strict')
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原始詞典資料2 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。
severitynoun/sɪˈvɛɹ.ɪ.ti/
- 1
The state of being severe.
- […] the fear of God whereof ' tis written Keeper : But not the fear of punishment for sin And I can see that the uncertainty In which we act is a severity , A cruelty , amounting to injustice That nothing but God's mercy can assuage . […]
- 2
The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
- The severity of the offence merits a long prison sentence.
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。