| 单词 | stoic |
| 释义 | stoic (once / 2436 pages) adjn Being stoic is being calm and almost without any emotion. When you're stoic, you don't show what you're feeling and you also accept whatever is happening. The noun stoic is a person who's not very emotional. The adjective stoic describes any person, action, or thing that seems emotionless and almost blank. Mr. Spock, from the oldest Star Trek show, was a great example of a stoic person: he tried to never show his feelings. Someone yelling, crying, laughing, or glaring is not stoic. Stoic people calmly go with the flow and don't appear to be shook up by much. WORD FAMILYstoic: stoical, stoically, stoics+/stoical: stoicism/stoicism: stoicisms USAGE EXAMPLESIn some scenes, Hens achieves a kind of middle tone, where, while still producing little horrors, he remains stoic, or reticent. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Venables played at Kansas State and began his coaching career there under Bill Snyder, one of the more stoic coaches in the game. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) They were the stoic dudes keeping it together to Prince’s histrionic grace. The New Yorker(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive stoic courage stoic patience Syn stoical unemotional unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion 2n someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions Syn|Ant|Hyper unemotional person emotional person a person subject to strong states of emotion adult, grownup a fully developed person from maturity onward Stoic (once / 4317 pages) adjn In Athens around 300 BC, Zeno of Citium founded a school of philosophy called Stoicism, and a person who followed the idea was called a Stoic. The main goal of a Stoic was to avoid unnecessary emotions. Stoics believed that certain feelings, like joy and sorrow, were destructive to people and should be avoided and that a virtuous life could result in peace and harmony with nature. The adjective Stoic describes something that relates to this particular school of philosophy. Major Stoic philosophers included Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Stoic is always capitalized. WORD FAMILYStoic: Stoics USAGE EXAMPLESThe Stoics recommended “the premeditation of evils,” or deliberately visualizing the worst-case scenario. New York Times(Aug 04, 2012) The Stoics were really writing and thinking about one thing: how to live. The Guardian(Dec 11, 2016) But there’s a way to deal with fear and anxiety that neuroscientists, the ancient Stoics and mindfulness experts all agree on. Time(Oct 25, 2016) 1adj pertaining to Stoicism or its followers 2n a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny Hyper philosopher a specialist in philosophy |
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