| 单词 | rigor |
| 释义 | rigor (once / 726 pages) n When a school boasts of its academic rigor, it means its students learn a lot and work really hard. Rigor means thoroughness and exhaustiveness––the gold standard for a good teacher. You may have heard of "rigor mortis"––which is a medical term describing the stiffness of a body after death. Rigor used to mean stiffness outside of the corpse context, i.e., sternness. The word changes meaning along with our changing standards for what we want teachers to be. WORD FAMILYrigor: rigorous, rigors+/rigorous: rigorously, rigorousness, rigourousness USAGE EXAMPLES“We want to apply the same scholarly rigor here that we would apply to an old masters’ show,” he added. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) He stuck to his old patterns and melodies, and pushed back against the rigor of the production. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) In a career built on dispensing advice to politicians, Mr. Harris was not unexperienced with the rigors and fears of running for elective office. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1n excessive sternness the rigors of boot camp Syn|Hyper hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness sternness, strictness uncompromising resolution 2n something hard to endure Syn|Hypo|Hyper asperity, grimness, hardship, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity sternness the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult 3n the quality of being valid and rigorous Syn|Hyper cogency, rigour, validity believability, credibility, credibleness the quality of being believable or trustworthy |
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