對人不留餘地
硬的是人或制度：規定照字面執行，誰來說情都沒有用。
noun · C1
Hard, strict treatment with no softness in it: rules or punishments applied in full, and no allowance made for anybody.
嚴厲；嚴苛
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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)
Three branches
處境與要求的難熬
硬的不再是人，是你身處的環境或被要求的份量。它不對你生氣，但它同樣不讓步。
noun · C1
Used in 'the rigours of something' to mean the hard, uncomfortable parts of a situation that you have to live through: hard weather, hard work, or a hard way of life.
艱苦；嚴酷之處
把硬用在自己的方法上
同一份不肯彎的力氣，這次不是對別人，也不是壓在你身上，而是你對自己的做法要求不打折。
noun · C1
Great care and exactness in the way work is done, so that every step is checked and nothing is left loose or unproven.
嚴謹
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。