Severe

(adj.) very bad in degree or extent; 'a severe worldwide depression'; 'the house suffered severe damage' .

(adj.) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; 'a parent severe to the pitch of hostility'- H.G.Wells; 'a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien'; 'a strict disciplinarian'; 'a Spartan upbringing' .

(adj.) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; 'severe pain'; 'a severe case of flu'; 'a terrible cough'; 'under wicked fire from the enemy's guns'; 'a wicked cough' .

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• My application was of longer endurance; but it was not so severe whilst it endured. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• You should do so, Sir,' said Pott, with a severe countenance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Crittenden had a severe engagement with some of Hill's corps on his crossing the river, and lost heavily. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• After several severe skirmishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden, which he occupied about the middle of April. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• To be brief, their kind attention and my own excellent constitution triumphed over the fever, which had been very severe during five days. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The terms were severe, but they left it possible for her to hope for an honourable future. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Intellectual responsibility means severe standards in this regard. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Under date of February 12, he writes: This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldes t inhabitant. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This process of puddling lasted for about an hour and a half and entailed extremely severe labour on the workman. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Our losses in the Wilderness were very severe. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The war is, perhaps, severest between the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided with special weapons. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But her uncle's anger gave her the severest pain of all. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One morning, after a severer strain than usual, he awoke with a strange sensation in his eyes. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But we can also imagine the existence of an age in which a severer conception of truth has either banished or transformed them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To stare Becky out of countenance required a severer glance than even the frigid old Bareacres could shoot out of her dismal eyes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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