- 1/stɜːrn/ · /stɜːn/嚴厲的、嚴肅的（形容詞）；船尾（名詞，較少用）
As a describing word, someone who is stern looks or acts serious and strict, not smiling, often a little — a stern look, a stern warning. As a noun with a totally different meaning, used mostly about boats, the "stern" is the back end of a ship or boat, the opposite of the "bow" (the front).
示範例句 · Example
Her grandfather was a stern man who rarely smiled.
中文翻譯她的祖父是一個嚴厲的男人，他很少微笑。
常見搭配
a stern warning
嚴正警告
a serious warning that shows anger or disapproval
The company was given a stern warning about safety.
a stern look / gaze
嚴厲的眼神
a hard, disapproving way of looking at someone
One stern look from his mother was enough.
in a stern voice
用嚴厲的語氣
speaking in a serious, disapproving way
She repeated the question in a stern voice.
stern measures
嚴厲的措施
strong actions taken to stop bad behaviour
The city took stern measures against littering.
From the word’s history
From Middle English stern, from Old English styrne 'stern, strict, severe'.
源自古英文 styrne「嚴厲、嚴峻」。
原始詞典資料10 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。
Sternname
- 1
A surname.
sternadj詞源 1/stɜːn/
- 1
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
- stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
- 2
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
- The remark earned me a stern rebuke.
- these barren rocks, your stern inheritance
sternnoun詞源 2/stɜːn/
- 1
nauticaltransportThe rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
- Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
- 2
The post of management or direction.
- and sit chiefest stern of public weal
- 3
The hinder part of anything.
- 4
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- And all attonce her beaſtly bodie raizd / With doubled forces high aboue the ground: / Tho wrapping vp her wrethed ſterne arownd, / Lept fierce vpon his ſhield, [...]
sternverb詞源 2/stɜːn/
- 1
obsoleteTo steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
- 2
nauticaltransportTo propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
sternnoun詞源 3/stɜːn/
- 1
A bird, the black tern, seabird.
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